2023 APSA Pre-Conference: Frontiers in Money in Politics Research

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We are please to announce that the Law School at the University of Southern California will host the fourth annual APSA Pre-Conference on Frontiers in Money in Politics Research on Wednesday August 30, 2023. We hope that you will participate in this event.

This pre-conference will represent a gathering of scholars interested in research on the relationship between money, influence, and politics in the United States and internationally. To facilitate planning of this pre-conference, please submit your proposal no later than April 28, 2023 to moneyinpoliticsconference@gmail.com if you would like to be considered to present a paper. When submitting your proposal, please include the following in your email:

•The title of your paper
•A list of co-authors, if applicable
•A draft or an extended abstract (500-1000 words) of your paper

If you would like to participate as a discussant or simply attend without presenting, you are welcome to, and please send an email to moneyinpoliticsconference@gmail.com indicating your interest.

We welcome submissions that fit into one or more of the following four research topics: campaign finance, lobbying, business influence, and other organized interests. The first two focus on forms of money in politics that have traditionally been the center of scholarly and public attention, while the latter two accommodate studies of the integrated strategies adopted by moneyed interests, including avenues of influence that bypass campaign finance or lobbying (corporate social responsibility, self-regulation, etc.).

The pre-conference will be held in-person at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Because this pre-conference will occur right before the 2023 annual conference for the American Political Science Association, which will also be held in Los Angeles, we will not provide financial resources for travel and lodging. However, we will provide lunch during the pre-conference and dinner following the event.

Money in Politics APSA Pre-Conference Organizing Committee (2023)

  • Michael Barber (Brigham Young University)

  • Jake Grumbach (University of California Berkeley)

  • Zhao Li (New York University)

  • Abby Wood (University of Southern California)

  • Hye Young You (Princeton University)

This year’s conference is generously hosted and supported by the USC Gould School of Law, The Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, and the Political Science Department at Brigham Young University.