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Strategic Spending: Does Politics Influence Election Administration Expenditure?

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  • Zachary Mohr
  • JoEllen V. Pope
  • Martha E. Kropf
  • Mary Jo Shepherd

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Recently, election administration has been an important part of the national and global conversation about the results of elections. The important issue of election administration spending has not been examined extensively, and the influence of politics on election administration spending levels has not been examined in the United States. While theories of voter turnout and policy preference suggest that politics should influence election administration spending levels in the counties that administer elections, to our knowledge, there has been no evidence produced to support a partisan election administration expenditure effect. This research finds that Republican county commissions in North Carolina spend significantly less on election administration once the county electorate is a sufficient Republican majority. The article presents a novel model and method for estimating election administration spending and calls for additional research to examine the outcomes of these significant differences in spending on election administration.

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  • Zachary Mohr & JoEllen V. Pope & Martha E. Kropf & Mary Jo Shepherd, 2019. "Strategic Spending: Does Politics Influence Election Administration Expenditure?," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 63(2), pages 427-438, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:amposc:v:63:y:2019:i:2:p:427-438
    DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12422
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    1. Apoorva Lal & Daniel M Thompson, 2023. "Did Private Election Administration Funding Advantage Democrats in 2020?," Papers 2310.05275, arXiv.org.
    2. Michelle L. Lofton & Mikhail Ivonchyk, 2022. "Financial manager professionalism and use of interfund transfers: Evidence from Georgia counties," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 42(2), pages 171-195, June.
    3. Matt Lamb, 2021. "The “costs” of voting: The effects of vote‐by‐mail on election administration finance in Colorado," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 102(4), pages 1361-1379, July.
    4. Markie McBrayer & R. Lucas Williams & Andrea Eckelman, 2020. "Local Officials as Partisan Operatives: The Effect of County Officials on Early Voting Administration," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 101(4), pages 1475-1488, July.
    5. Mary Jo McGowan & JoEllen V. Pope & Martha E. Kropf & Zachary Mohr, 2021. "Guns or Butter… or Elections? Understanding intertemporal and distributive dimensions of policy choice through the examination of budgetary tradeoffs at the local level," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(4), pages 3-19, December.

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