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Measuring the Stringency of State Campaign Finance Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

Christopher Witko
Christopher Witko*
Affiliation:
California State University, Sacramento
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Abstract

Scholars are beginning to consider how state campaign finance regulation influences political behavior and elections, but they lack the systematic measure of these regulations needed to do so. This article describes a simple measure of state campaign finance regulation stringency that is based on state statutes in 2002. Further, this article explains the construction of the measure and assesses its validity and reliability. The index generally confirms qualitative assessments of state campaign finance regulation, and it is correlated with measures of related aspects of state campaign finance regulation, campaign spending, and fundraising.

Type
The Practical Researcher
Information
State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , Fall 2005 , pp. 295 - 310
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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