I am pleased to announce that as of July 23, 2024, you can read my book with Diana Dwyre titled The Fundamentals of Campaign Finance in the U.S.: Why We Have the System We Have. The book is meant for anyone who is confused by the federal campaign finance system. We have worked hard to explain how our system works (or partly works – hence our title image) from the perspectives of each of the main players: donors (individuals, interest groups and political parties) and candidates.
As for anything earlier, please consult:
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hwqDawYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
I have uploaded all of my original work to Research Gate as of July 2024. The tabs below have a limited selection of pdfs.
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robin-Kolodny
Campaign Finance
“Convergence or Divergence? Do Parties and Outside Groups Spend on the Same Candidates, and Does It Matter?” American Politics Research, 46 (2018), Issue 3, pp. 375 – 401. With Diana Dwyre.
“The 2016 Presidential Nominating Process, the Limits of Campaign Money, and the Nature of Popular Love.” Society, 53 (2016), no.5: 487-492. *Invited submission to peer reviewed journal. Kolodny Money Can’t Buy me Love in Society
Political Parties
“Party Orchestrated Activities for Legislative Party Goals: Campaigns for Majorities in the US House of Representatives in the 1990s.” Party Politics. 4 (Fall 1998):275-295 (with Diana Dwyre).Party Politics-1998-Kolodny-275-95
“Parties and Campaign Professionals in a Digital Age: Political Consultants in the United States and Their Counterparts Overseas.” Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. 6 (4) (Fall 2001): 11-30 (with David M. Farrell and Stephen K. Medvic).Farrell Kolodny and Medvic 2001
“Political Party Adaptation in Congressional Campaigns: Why Political Parties Use Coordinated Expenditures to Hire Political Consultants.” With David A. Dulio. Party Politics 9 (2003): 729-746.Kolodny and Dulio in Party Politics 2003
“Divided in Victory? The Conservatives and the Republicans.” 2011. In The Legacy of the Crash: How the Financial Crisis Changed America and Britain. Ed. Terrence Casey. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 101-121. With Tim Bale. Bale and Kolodny in Casey 2011
Public Policy
“Paving the Road to “Too Big to Fail”: Business Interests and the Politics of Financial Deregulation in the U.S.” Politics and Society, 39(2011), no. 1: 74-102. With Sandra Suarez. Suarez and Kolodny 2011 – Politics and Society
Campaigns and Elections
“Educating the Least Informed: Group Endorsements in a Grassroots Campaign.” The American Journal of Political Science, (2009), no. 4: 755-770. With Kevin Arceneaux. Arceneaux and Kolodny ajps 2009
“The Effect of Grassroots Campaigning on Issue Preferences and Issue Salience.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, 19 (2009), no. 3, 235-249. With Kevin Arceneaux. Arceneaux and Kolodny JEPOP 2009 pdf in print
“Finding the Cost of Campaign Advertising,” The Forum: Vol. 6 : Iss. 1, 2008, April 3, Article 11. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol6/iss1/art11 , with Michael G. Hagen. Hagen and Kolodny – The Forum 3-08