Regulating Democracy: The Law and Economics of Political Speech

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Klumpp, Tilman

• SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: The objective of the proposed research program is to explore the relationship between political speech, its regulation through the law, and the political and economic consequences of the regulation of speech. Part 1 is a theoretical analysis of the role of private and public campaign funding mechanisms in elections with costly political speech and the the decision of political candidates to run for office. Part 2 is an empirical analysis of the effects of laws regulating the political speech by corporations and unions on election outcomes and political participation. Part 3 is an empirical analysis of the effects of felony disenfranchisement laws in the U.S. on elections. Specifically, the the proposed research will examine the consequences of these voting restrictions on election outcomes.

• Date created

  2014-10-15

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Successful SSHRC
  • Government
  • Economics
  • IG
  • Sshrc grants
  • Political Speech
  • Law
  • Political Advertising
  • Political Science
  • Felony Disenfranchisement
  • 2015
  • Insight Grant
  • Elections
  • Political Candidates
  • Campaign Finance
  • Special Interest Politics
  • Democracy

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3WD3Q82F

• License

  © Klumpp, Tilman. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2023.