Why is There so Little Money in Politics

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Political rents in a non-corrupt democracy (2009, positive): “As previously mentioned, Ansolabehere et al (2003) nd that the degree of both interand intra party competition is strongly related to campaign spending in US gubernatorial elections.”
Corporate Political Contributions and Stock Returns (2010, positive): “Ansolabehere et al. (2003) report that corporate PACs can double the amount they contribute to political candidates by legally shifting their overhead expenses to the sponsoring firms.”
Advancing the Empirical Research on Lobbying (2014, background): “…written on the subject of campaign contributions and money have dominated the statistical work on the influence of interest groups in politics (Ansolabehere et al. 2003), there has emerged over the past decade a growing literature in political science and related disciplines that empirically…”
Red, blue, and purple firms: Organizational political ideology and corporate social responsibility (2017, background): “Research in political science has found that individuals who donate to political parties tend to be socially influential, ideologically minded, and motivated to promulgate their beliefs among friends and colleagues (Rosenstone and Hansen, 1992; Ansolabehere et al., 2003).”