The effects of personal campaign spending in a semi open list PR system. KU Leuven
This project is about the effect of personal campaign expenses on the electoral result of individual candidates. Research about spending effects in majoritarian systems has shown that (1) spending has a significant effect, but (2) this effect is much stronger for challengers than for incumbents. Similar research about spending effects on the personal vote in proportional systems is inconclusive and this incumbency effect often fails to ...