Fall 2026: Effect of Fundraising on Elections Outcomes in Partisan Primaries

Affiliations: School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs
Team Leader:
Dhanya Nair
dhanya.nair@ucf.edu
School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs
Faculty Mentor:
Jonathan Knuckey, PhD
Team Size:
2
Open Spots: 2
Team Member Qualifications:
Team members would have taken the undergraduate quantitative methods class and have a working knowledge of STATA.
Description:
I study the determinants and effects of early fundraising on candidate selection in Congressional Primaries. Specifically, I focus on small and large individual donors and their contributions to candidates, while controlling for ideology, district partisanship and candidate qualities, like education, previous office holder, gender and other demographics.