POLI 380 Study Guide - Final Guide: Research Question, Canadian Prairies, Northern Canada
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Theory: the more money a potential legislator spends on campaigning, the more advertisements they can buy. If one potential legislator has more advertisements than another, individuals are going to be more likely to see the ads and consequentially know who the potential legislator is and want to vote for him/her. This means that the more money a potential legislator spends on campaigning, the more votes he or she will receive, and the more likely he/she will be to be elected as a legislator. Campaign spending: an empirical investigation. journal of political economy 84 (1976): 1095-1108. http://www. jstor. org. ezproxy. library. ubc. ca/stable/1830444? seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents. One of the variables in this article is political campaign spending. This variable was measured by obtaining the dollar amount of party expenditures in each. Presidential election from the years 1868 to 1972. The purpose of this measure is to examine how campaign spending has increased over this period of time. The article explains that expenditures are reported national-level spending on.
