Competition and Accountability in the Political Marketplace: A Big-Data Approach to Detect 'Scam PACs'

• In Event: Money in Legislative Elections

Brief Overview

Campaign regulators and practitioners warn about the rise of political action committees (PACs) that defraud campaign donors in the U.S. I present the first empirical account of these so-called scam PACs, and a supervised algorithm to detect them.

Author

• Zhao Li, Princeton University