Anna Harvey, professor of politics at New York University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast Citizens United at 10 podcast symposium to discuss her article Does Money Have a Conservative Bias? Estimating the Causal Impact of Citizens United on State Legislative Preferences. In this article, Harvey and her co-author find that after Citizens United not only did states whose campaign-finance laws were affected by the decision see flips in control of legislative seats, but also that elected Republican legislators held more conservative policy preferences.
This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.