Do Resources Constrain or Enable Special Groups to Reach Programmatic Parties?

• In Event: The Role of Fundraising and Resources in Political Campaigns, Representation, and Decision-making

Brief Overview

Interest groups in the partisan era are expected to take partisan-consistent positions outside their core issue areas of interests. We show how campaign finance resources intervene in this relationship in a nonmonotonic fashion.

Authors

• Jesse M. Crosson, Purdue University

• Alexander Furnas, Northwestern University

• Geoffrey Miles Lorenz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln