"I have only seen recent studies finding that campaign spending has little impact on electoral outcomes;" It's a 1994 article and the research didn't stop in 1

"I have only seen recent studies finding that campaign spending has little impact on electoral outcomes;" It's a 1994 article and the research didn't stop in 1994. There are quite a few after-1994 articles supporting either view. "if you have evidence that elections can be bought" Influenced. Here's an example one from 2004: http://karlan.yale.edu/fieldexperiments/papers/00246.pdf http://karlan.yale.edu/fieldexperiments/papers/00246.pdf TLDR: authors designed and performed some actual experiments whose outcomes support the thesis that campaign spending works - better for a challenger than for an incumbent.