04-10-2021, 01:11 PM
(04-08-2021, 10:16 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The money problem in politics isn't as much of a problem as people tend to think it is. Research is telling us that it isn't so much that money results in wins, it's that winners tend to attract money during a campaign. The money being spent is an attempt at influence, gaining favor, which also isn't really a thing. The relationship between money spent and policy outcomes is not a good one. In fact, it's pretty much 50/50 based on the research.
All of this being said, I'm still in favor of campaign finance reforms, but I think that we need to understand that the problem isn't what we tend to make it out to be.
This.
The "Freakenomics" guys did a study on this and found that money does not have as big of an impact as people believe.
