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Paul Jorgensen

Paul D. Jorgensen is Associate Professor and Director of Environmental Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research concerns campaign finance and political parties in the United States. Using a grant with the °ËØÔ±¬ÁÏ, he is improving campaign finance data in order to create new and more accurate measures of campaign fundraising and spending in the United States. Jorgensen’s research has appeared in the International Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, Political Research Quarterly, and the Policy Studies Journal.

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Trump, Populism, and the Republican Establishment: Two Graphs From New Hampshire

Article | Feb 2, 2024

This year’s New Hampshire primary testifies to the disintegration of the Republican Party

No Bargain: Big Money and the Debt Ceiling Deal

Article | May 30, 2023

What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?

Bankman-Fried, Political Money, and the Crash of FTX

Article | Dec 15, 2022

How Showering Money on Both Parties Paralyzed Regulators

Trump and the Republican Base: A Machine Learning Approach (Revisited)

Article | Nov 7, 2022

Economic issues are a primary part of Trump’s appeal to his base

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Jacobin Features INET Paper on 2016 Election

News Oct 19, 2018

Jacobin Magazine features research from INET Research Director Tom Ferguson and co-authors on big business support for Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign.

Reawakening

From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time

Event Plenary | Oct 21–23, 2017

INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.

Stark New Evidence on How Money Shapes America’s Elections

Article | Aug 8, 2016

Oversights of two generations of social scientists have weakened democracy.