This week the podcast welcomes Katie Moorman, State Outreach Data Research Manager at ActBlue. The discussion centers on how technology has helped build the small dollar donor grassroots movement in politics and how political engagement can be defined as more than a yearly trip to the voter’s booth.

Links mentioned in this episode-

https://secure.actblue.com/

Also, some studies she references:

1. Study on gifts inducing decision makers to favor the gift giver: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20140890

2. Study on donors in Washington DC’s 2014 Elections: https://www.demos.org/research/dcs-white-donor-class-outsized-influence-diverse-city