Campaign Spending In Elections Research Articles

Polarization and Campaign Spending in Elections

I develop a Downsian model of electoral competition in which candidates with policy and office motivations use platforms and campaign spending to gain the median voter’s support. The unique equilibrium involves randomizing over platforms and spending and exhibits the following properties: (i) ex ante uncertainty about the winner, (ii) platform divergence, (iii) inefficiency in spending and outcomes, (iv) polarization, and (v) voter extremism. I show that platform polarization and spending move in tandem, since spending is used by candidates to gain support for extreme platforms. Factors that contribute to both include the candidates’ desire for extreme policies and their capability at translating spending into support for them. I also show that strong incumbents parlay an advantage into more extreme platforms, consistent with the classic marginality hypothesis but contrasting with a large theoretical literature in which candidates with an (exogenous or endogenous) valence advantage tend to moderate their platforms.

With Corona 시대의 선거방역과 민주주의의 과제

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the corona virus pandemic on South Korea's general election. We are paying particular attention to the election campaign and voter turnout. It will also analyze the impact on candidates' election campaigns and overseas elections. Election campaign spending has been cut in the 2020 general election due to the corona virus pandemic. Voter turnout for overseas elections has also dropped significantly. These two results mean that the corona virus is negatively affecting the election. How ever, early voting rates are increasing. The reason is that they chose early voting to avoid congestion on election day. In the with Corona era, flexible operation of election system and election law is required. A change in the role of the electoral management body is necessary, but an active role, not a passive one, is required. In the 2020 general election, the election management body made the process of election prevention transparent. Polling stations Voter participation is increasing as the quarantine process is made public. In South Korea, the issue of confidence in voters and election management bodies has become a political issue.

How Do Campaigns Matter?

A review of the evidence leaves no doubt election campaigns do matter in a variety of important ways. The serious questions concern when, where, why, how, for what, and for whom they matter. This essay reviews a selection of high-quality studies that address these questions, focusing on several distinct lines of research that have been particularly productive in recent years: on the effects of events and advertising in presidential elections; on the effects of campaign spending in elections for down-ballot offices; on the effects of mobilization campaigns on voting turnout; on campaign influences on the vote choice (with special attention to the effects of negative campaigns); and on the nature of persuadable voters. It also offers some suggestions of areas where additional research should be productive.