Author(s): Broockman, D; Malhotra, N | Abstract: © The Author(s) 2020. Influential theories indicate concern that campaign donors exert outsized political influence. However, little data have documented what donors actually want from government, and existing research has devoted less attention to donors' views on individual issues. Findings from an original survey of US donors, including an oversample of the largest donors, and a concurrently fielded mass survey document significant heterogeneity by party and policy domain in how donors' and citizens' views diverge. We find that Republican donors are much more conservative than Republican citizens on economic issues, whereas their views are similar on social issues. By contrast, Democratic donors are much more liberal than Democratic citizens on social issues, whereas their views are more similar on economic issues. Both parties' donors, but especially Democratic donors, are more pro-globalism than their citizen counterparts. We replicate these patterns in an independent dataset. Our findings have important implications for the study of American politics.

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党派捐助者想要什么？

作者：布鲁克曼，D；Malhotra, N | 摘要：© The Author(s) 2020。有影响力的理论表明，人们担心竞选捐助者会施加过大的政治影响。然而，很少有数据记录捐助者真正想要从政府那里得到什么，现有的研究很少关注捐助者对个别问题的看法。对美国捐助者的原始调查（包括对最大捐助者的超量抽样）以及同时进行的大规模调查的结果表明，在捐助者和公民的意见分歧方面，政党和政策领域存在显着的异质性。我们发现共和党捐助者在经济问题上比共和党公民保守得多，而他们在社会问题上的观点却相似。相比之下，民主党捐助者在社会问题上比民主党公民更自由，而他们在经济问题上的看法则更为相似。双方的捐助者，尤其是民主党的捐助者，比他们的公民捐助者更支持全球化。我们在一个独立的数据集中复制这些模式。我们的发现对美国政治的研究具有重要意义。