Campaign spending limits, incumbent spending, and election outcomes
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Campaign Spending Limits, Incumbent Spending, and Election Outcomes
We study the impact of campaign spending limits for candidates in Canadian federal elections. We first demonstrate that spending limits are binding mostly for incumbent candidates. We then use this information to produce endogeneity-corrected estimates for the impact of incumbent spending on electoral vote shares. Furthermore, we examine the impact of spending limits on broader measures of elec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0008-4085,1540-5982
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00507.x