Martin Gilens (UCLA) presents  Marketing campaign Finance Rules and Public Coverage, 115 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 1074 (2021) (with Shawn Patterson, Jr. (Southern Oregon) & Pavielle Haines (Rollins Faculty)) at UCLA at the moment as a part of its Colloquium on Tax Coverage and Public Finance hosted by Kirk Stark and Jason Oh:

Regardless of a century of efforts to constrain cash in American elections, there may be little consensus on whether or not marketing campaign finance laws make any considerable distinction. Right here we benefit from a change within the marketing campaign finance laws of half of the U.S. states mandated by the Supreme Courtroom’s Residents United resolution. This exogenously imposed change within the regulation of unbiased expenditures supplies an advance over the identification methods utilized in most earlier research. Utilizing a generalized artificial management methodology, we discover that after Residents United, states that had beforehand banned unbiased company expenditures (and thus had been “handled” by the choice) adopted extra “corporate-friendly” insurance policies on points with broad results on companies’ welfare; we discover no proof of shifts on insurance policies with little or no impact on company welfare.