The Price of Power: Campaign Finance, Press Coverage, and the Polarization of American Politics | Andrew Myers

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you apply machine learning and rigorous data analysis to the "Wild West" of American campaign finance? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Andrew Myers, a PhD candidate at Stanford University and incoming Assistant Professor at MIT, to pull back the curtain on how money, media, and institutional rules shape our democracy. From the surprising ways donors "punish" extremist candidates to the hidden consequences...