Incumbent and challenger campaign spending effects in proportional electoral systems the Irish Elections of 2002

• Main Authors: BENOIT, Kenneth, MARSH, Michael
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Campaign finance; Campaign spending; Ireland; Single transferable vote; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3994; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5252/viewcontent/IncChallSpending_PRQ_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Positive effects of campaign spending on electoral outcomes have been found in several comparative, multiparty contexts, but very few of these systems use proportional representation. The few studies examining spending effects in multiparty elections have found that incumbent spending is no less eff...