Who gets the goods? Moderate Voting Records, Diminishing Returns, and PAC Contributions
Assuming that a legislator representing a moderate constituency (with respect to a variety of interests) may be expected to vote moderately in general, the authors suggest a measure of the 'moderateness' of a legislator's voting behavior and use it to determine whether a relationship exists between PAC contributions and the degree of moderateness. The results suggest that PACs exhibit a tendency to give more, at the margin, to legislators with moderate voting records. Copyright 2000 Royal Statistical Society.
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2000
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Authors: | Dempster, Gregory m. ; Westley, Christopher |
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Economics and Politics. - Wiley Blackwell. - Vol. 12.2000, 3, p. 321-333
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Wiley Blackwell |
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