Campaign Contributions
problems and difficulties of the quantitative research agenda
Keywords:
Campaign contributions, Public decisions, Empirical research, Quantitative methodology, Quasi-experimentsAbstract
Do campaign contributions affect political decisions or post-electoral behavior of political actors? For a long time this question has been discussed by the empirical quantitative research in political science. The answers, however, have been generally ambiguous. Here, it is sustained that such ambiguity is due, in part, to practical and methodological difficulties – often wrongly addressed – faced by the analysts. The article seeks to show how researchers have dealt with those difficulties along time, and proposes using research designs intended to take advantage of situations quasi-experimental in order to reduce such ambiguities.
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