Abstract
This chapter investigates the relationship between campaign expenditures and voting in gubernatorial elections from 1980 to 1996. To date, the overwhelming majority of studies on campaign finance have analyzed congressional elections. This research was in large part stimulated by the Federal Election Campaign Acts (FECA) of the early 1970s. Although Congress had passed financial disclosure laws as early as 1910 and 1911, they were not effective until strengthened by the 1971 FECA. The FECA amendments of 1974 created the Federal Election Commission (FEC), which became the central collection point for publicly available campaign finance disclosure reports. Scholars could thereafter obtain expenditure data for all House and Senate elections from this single source. As discussed in the introduction, no equivalent to the FEC exists for gubernatorial elections. This has made research on state-level campaign finance issues more difficult.KeywordsElection OutcomeCandidate QualityCampaign FinanceCongressional ElectionHouse ElectionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Published Version
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call