Strategic Spending: Does Politics Influence Election Administration Expenditure?

Zachary Mohr, JoEllen V. Pope, Martha E. Kropf and Mary Jo Shepherd

American Journal of Political Science, 2019, vol. 63, issue 2, 427-438

Abstract: Recently, election administration has been an important part of the national and global conversation about the results of elections. The important issue of election administration spending has not been examined extensively, and the influence of politics on election administration spending levels has not been examined in the United States. While theories of voter turnout and policy preference suggest that politics should influence election administration spending levels in the counties that administer elections, to our knowledge, there has been no evidence produced to support a partisan election administration expenditure effect. This research finds that Republican county commissions in North Carolina spend significantly less on election administration once the county electorate is a sufficient Republican majority. The article presents a novel model and method for estimating election administration spending and calls for additional research to examine the outcomes of these significant differences in spending on election administration.

Date: 2019
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