Dark Parties
Unveiling Nonparty Communities in American Political Campaigns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3378059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stan Oklobdzija (0000-0002-8082-5824, University of California, Riverside, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 401-422 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055423000187 |
| OpenAlex | W4362634565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
Since 2010, independent expenditures have grown as a source of spending in American elections. A large and growing portion comes from "dark money" groups-political nonprofits whose terms of incorporation allow them to partially obscure their sources of income. I develop a new dataset of about 2,350,000 tax documents released by the IRS and use it to test a new theory of political spending. I posit that pathways for anonymous giving allowed interest groups to form new networks and create new pathways for money into candidate races apart from established political parties. Akin to networked party organizations discovered by other scholars, these dark money networks channel money from central hubs to peripheral electioneering groups. I further show that accounting for these dark money networks makes previously peripheral nodes more important to the larger network and diminishes the primacy of party affiliated organizations in funneling money into candidate races
Biology · Economics · Great Rift · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Test (biology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Social Media and Politics
Networks
Unfree Speech
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America
Why Parties?
Campaign Finance and Political Polarization
Party Position Change in American Politics
Computing Communities in Large Networks Using Random Walks
The architecture of complex weighted networks
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
Politics, parties, & pressure groups.
Newspaper Closures Polarize Voting Behavior
Centrality and network flow
Public positions, private giving
The Fates of Challengers in U.S. House Elections
Building the Bloc
The Decline of Local News and Its Effects
Mapping Influence
Donation Motivations
Voters Use Campaign Finance Transparency and Compliance Information
A Theory of Political Parties
The Koch Network and Republican Party Extremism
Party crashers
Party cohesion in presidential races
On the Theory of Parties
Connecting the Candidates
Attacks without Consequence? Candidates, Parties, Groups, and the Changing Face of Negative Advertising
Partisan Webs
Convergence or Divergence? Do Parties and Outside Groups Spend on the Same Candidates, and Does It Matter
Committees and the Political Party Network
Party Coalitions and Interest Group Networks
Agency Problems in Political Campaigns
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |