Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Competition and Incumbency Advantage

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  National Bureau of Economic Research

• Publication date

  2017-06-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.3386/W23508
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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