The Expansion of the Internet and Campaign Donations in the U.S.

• In Event: New Research on Media Influence

Brief Overview

We study how the Internet affected campaign contributions, using the rollout of broadband internet in the 2000s. We assess mechanisms of how the internet affected political participation using microdata from Internet browsing records and the NAES.

Authors

• Shun Yamaya, Stanford University

• Matthew Edward Dardet, Harvard University