The Effect of War Chests on Challenger Entry in U.S. House Elections

Goodliffe, Jay

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“…Goldenberg, Traugott, and Baumgartner (1986), Goidel and Gross (1994), Hersch and McDougall (1994), Box-Steffensmeier (1996), and Hogan (2001) find support for the deterrence of war chests. 1 In contrast, Krasno and Green (1988), Squire (1991), Milyo (1998), Milyo and Groseclose (1999), Ansolabehere and Snyder (2000), Goodliffe (2001), and Mycoff (2004) find either that war chests (or preemptive fund-raising or incumbent wealth) do not deter challengers or that the effects are so substantively small that deterrence is an implausible motivation. Theoretical work on war chests and preemptive fund-raising (Epstein and Zemsky 1995;Dharmapala 2002;Goodliffe 2003Goodliffe , 2005 examines the deterrent capabilities of war chests, and finds that war chests deter only under limited circumstances.…”

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War Chests as Precautionary Savings

Goodliffe

2004

Polit Behav

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I present a model of campaign spending and saving in repeated elections which yields empirical implications on the creation of war chests. As previous studies disagree whether war chests deter potential challengers from running against incumbents, I present an alternative model that intentionally excludes deterrence as a motivation and formalizes under what circumstances (if any) a war chest would be created for savings. The model predicts that an incumbent creates a war chest when she faces a weaker challenger, i.e. as precautionary savings for future elections. The model yields several other predictions of incumbent fund-raising, spending, and saving behavior. Using incumbents from 1982-1998 U.S. House elections, I find strong empirical support for the predictions of the model.

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War Chests as Precautionary Savings

Goodliffe

2004

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“…6. For studies examining the effect of incumbents' war chests on deterring entry by challengers see, for example, Epstein and Zemsky (1995), Box-Steffesmeier (1996), and Goodliffe (2001). 7.…”

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Some talk: Money in politics. A (partial) review of the literature

Stratmann

2005

Public Choice

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The financing of political campaigns is an area of active scholarly study. I review some of the recent literature and discuss important methodological issues that arise in empirical research on campaign expenditures and campaign contributions. The effects of campaign expenditures and advertising on candidate and ballot-measure elections are summarized, as are the impacts of contributions on contributors’ welfare. Many states have changed their campaign finance laws in the past few years, and I describe work that exploits variations in these laws. A discussion of the strategies used by interest groups to allocate their campaign contributions provides insights into contributors’ motives. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005

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“…Most importantly, recent works on congressional careers show that the campaign environment is rather strategic (Bianco, 1984;Bond et al, 1985;Krasno and Green, 1988;Squire, 1988;Levitt and Wolfram, 1997;Goodliffe, 2001Goodliffe, , 2007. In particular, the literature has examined the question, "Under what conditions does an incumbent retire?"…”

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Prior Margins of Victory and Legislative Careers: Competing Risks Regression Analysis in South Korean National Assembly, 1988–2015

Kim¹,

Park²

2017

korea Observer - inst n.a stud

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How do prior margins of victory influence the longevity and exit patterns of legislative careers in . Our statistical findings show that higher vote margins in the previous election decrease the chance of electoral defeat in the next election. Legislators with narrow vote margins are positively associated with a higher likelihood of enforced removal from office by the * * This study was partially funded.

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The Effect of War Chests on Challenger Entry in U.S. House Elections

Cited by 86 publications

References 41 publications

War Chests as Precautionary Savings

War Chests as Precautionary Savings

Some talk: Money in politics. A (partial) review of the literature

Prior Margins of Victory and Legislative Careers: Competing Risks Regression Analysis in South Korean National Assembly, 1988–2015

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