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The Effects of Campaign Spending on Electoral Outcomes: A Data Envelopment Analysis

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Data envelopment analysis is used to analyze the efficiency of candidate campaign spending. Analysis of the measured efficiency scores of the incumbents and challengers shows that there are significant systematic effects of both district and candidate characteristics. The incumbent's residuals from the efficiency score regressions indicate those candidates who do well because of the nature of their district and those who do well because of their own abilities. Incumbents are ranked according to their observed efficiency, their unobserved efficiency, and their vote share. Correlations among the rankings are significant and of the expected signs. More efficient candidates receive higher vote shares. Copyright 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Coates, Dennis, 1999. "The Effects of Campaign Spending on Electoral Outcomes: A Data Envelopment Analysis," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 99(1-2), pages 15-37, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:99:y:1999:i:1-2:p:15-37
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    1. Thomas Sexton & Herbert Lewis, 2012. "Measuring efficiency in the presence of head-to-head competition," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 38(2), pages 183-197, October.
    2. Farvaque, Etienne & Foucault, Martial & Vigeant, Stéphane, 2020. "The politician and the vote factory: Candidates’ resource management skills and electoral returns," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 42(1), pages 38-55.

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