Chapter 1: Understanding Campaign Finance and Its Influence

Stanford political science professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Brandice CanesWrone, discusses campaign finance research that illustrates political party spending produces more moderate candidates and that individual donor ideologies balance out across the entire electorate. She further reveals the degree to which money impacts policymaking, with PAC spending influencing legislative access and effort but not roll call votes, while individual donors exert more influence over voting allegiance. Interestingly, she finds that donors largely tend to be economically conservative and restrictive on immigration policy versus nondonors.

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Additional resources:

Read Brandice CanesWrone’s book "Who Leads Whom?" Available here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/....

Listen to “Grading Election Integrity,” with Benjamin Ginsberg and Bill Whalen on Saints, Sinners & Salvageables. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/gradi....

Watch “Why Do Some Democracies Survive While Others Fail?” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/unarchived/w....

Watch “Victor Davis Hanson Explains the Difference between American and European Conservatism,” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/policybrief....

Watch “Limiting Presidential Power: A Return to Constitutional Balance,” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/intellection....

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