Campaign Contributions and U.S. Politics

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Brief Overview

The paper examines the impact of political donations on the ideological stance of elected members of the US House of Representatives through 10 election cycles over a period from 2000 to 2020 in a diff-in-diff setting.

Authors

• Andrew Pickering, University of York

• Akif Yardimci, University of York