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Revealing New Data On Who Donates To Campaigns
Not Another Politics Podcast
English - June 08, 2022 12:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBGovernment News Politics chicago government academic americanpolitics anthonyfowler notanotherpoliticspodcast political politicalpodcast politicalprofessors politicalscience Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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There are many questions surrounding the nature of money in politics, but one of the first order questions we should be asking is who exactly is donating that money? We now have access to more data than ever due to a dramatic increase in small donations through online fundraising platforms.
Georgetown University Economist Laurent Bouton digs through this new data set in a recent paper “Small Campaign Donors” to answer all sorts of questions like: do big or small donors give more strategically, has there been an increase in donations to extremist candidates, and are the coasts influencing elections more than the rest of the country by donating more money?