Exhibit 688 ยท Working paper (published JEP 2003)
Why Is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics?
we argue that campaign contributions are not a form of policy-buying, but are rather a form of political participation and consumption.
Concerns campaign contributions, not lobbying expenditures. Reports that individuals, not special interests, are the main source of contributions and that, controlling for unobserved effects, there is little relationship between money and votes. Quote is from the working-paper abstract.
- Source
- Ansolabehere, de Figueiredo and Snyder (NBER Working Paper 9409; Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(1):105-130)
- Date
- 2003
- Quoted from
- Abstract (NBER WP 9409)
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://www.nber.org/papers/w9409
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
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