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Title: Money Talks: The Impact of Citizens United on State Elections

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that restrictions on independent political expendi- tures by corporations and labor unions are unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds (Citizens United v. FEC, 2010). In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the decision gave an electoral boost to Republicans, at the expense of Democrats. The 50 U.S. states provide an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis as the ruling only affected a subset of states. We find that Citizens United had a positive and statistically significant effect of two to three per- centage points on the probability of Republicans winning in state congressional elections.

Url: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~econwps/2012/wp2012-18.pdf

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Authors: Klumpp, Tilman; Mialon, Hugo, M; Williams, Michael, A

Series Title: University of Alberta Department of Economics Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 2012-18

Institution: University of Alberta

Pages: 27

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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Other

Countries: United States