Jonathan Wand

I examine the possibility that a PAC has a preference for particular types of candidates within each party, as well as desiring to help the coalition as a whole to win more seats. I generalize the partisan theory to accommodate a PACs’ preferences for candidates of a particular ideology and institutional position. Incorporating candidate-specific characteristics into how PACs choose to allocate contributions does not change the main theoretical insights or empirical results derived from the pure model of partisan PACs.