Do Democracy Vouchers help democracy?

IF 1.7 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI:10.1111/coep.12625

Sarah Papich

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Abstract

Seattle's Democracy Vouchers program provides a unique form of public financing for political campaigns in which voters decide how to allocate public funding across candidates. This paper is the first to study the effects of public financing for political campaigns on political participation. I estimate that the Democracy Vouchers program increases voter turnout by 4.9 percentage points, suggesting that public financing programs can increase political participation. I also find that campaigns become more reliant on small contributions. For city council candidates, dollars from small contributions under $100 increase by 156% while dollars from large contributions over $250 decrease by 93%.

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民主券有助于民主吗？

西雅图的民主代金券计划为政治竞选提供了一种独特的公共融资形式，由选民决定如何在候选人之间分配公共资金。本文首次研究了政治竞选公共资金对政治参与的影响。我估计，民主券计划将选民投票率提高了4.9个百分点，这表明公共融资计划可以提高政治参与度。我还发现，竞选活动越来越依赖小额捐款。对于市议员候选人来说，100美元以下的小额捐款增加了156%，而250美元以上的大额捐款减少了93%。

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3.10

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6.70%

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