Do donor-funded politicians benefit their donors disproportionately? If so, how? This paper examines the impact of electing donor-funded politicians using a novel dataset that uniquely links campaign donors with recipients of public contracts during mayors' incumbency period in Colombia. Using a...

While increasing public attention is being directed toward the use of data in the 2012 presidential campaign, particularly by Obama for America, congressional candidates' use of data has largely avoided any type of public scrutiny. This lack of scrutiny is perhaps a symptom of both a media...

The Article challenges urgent calls for the de-regulation of party campaign finance as part of the ongoing transformation of federal campaign finance law under the Roberts Court. First, on the legal front, the Article presents a new constitutional approach to campaign finance corruption that...

This article argues that a democracy's regulations governing the disclosure of campaign and political finance depend on the country's electoral system. Specifically, the likelihood that disclosure regulations for competitors in legislative elections extend to individual candidates (and not...