CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Moniz, Philip Ryan |
|---|---|
| Title | There May Be Hope: Political Efficacy and Campaign Finance Reform |
| Summary | This paper attempts to bring conceptual clarity to the political-psychological measure of political efficacy, and provides a new empirical test of the proposition that campaign finance reform, particularly in the form of publically financed elections, makes for a more efficacious-feeling citizenry. The empirical findings come from doing a longitudinal analysis of a single state, Arizona, using a method, called “synthetic control,” in which the unit of analysis is compared to a synthetic copy of itself that does not receive the “treatment,” which in this case is campaign finance reform. Where previous studies have found public systems of campaign finance to be associated with lower levels of citizens’ sense of external efficacy, this one finds that in the immediate aftermath of the reform there was a substantial boost in how responsive citizens perceived their government to be. The effect, however strong, appears temporary, but shows that efficacy can be rather sensitive to changes in political institutions. |
| Supervisor | Popescu, Marina |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/moniz_philip.pdf |
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