Spring, 2005 Interest Group Politics Topic 6 Page: Index

POLI 100E, Interest Group Politics: Topic 6, Interest Groups and National Elections

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Topic 1, Why Study Interest Groups?

Topic 2, Why are There so Many Interest Groups?

Topics 3 and 4, Theories of Interest Groups

Topics 5 and 7, Interest Groups and Congress

Topic 6, Interest Groups and National Elections

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Campaign Expenditures Congressional Elections 1980-2000

Campaign Spending in House Races, 1980-1998 (1999 dollars)

Cost of Winning Election to the House (2000 dollars)

Cost of Winning a Senate Election -- 1986 - 2000 (With and Without Corzine and Clinton, 2000)

Mean Expenditures of House Challengers Who Beat Incumbents

Soft Money Spending by the National Political Parties: 1992-2000

PAC Contributions to Congressional Candidates by PAC Type

2002 PAC Contributions by Ideology

Campaign Spending and the Vote in 1996

OpenSecrets.Org: Top All-Time Donors

OpenSecrets.Org: Top 50 527 Committess 2004