We demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians have a significant impact on the voting behavior of U … consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of … networks on voting. We find that the effect of alumni networks is close to 60% of the size of the effect of state …

This paper studies the information content and consequences of third-party voting advice issued during proxy contests …. We find that voting advice is a good predictor of contest outcomes and that vote recommendations appear to certify the …

impacts the district representative's roll call voting. We find that an increase in Democrat share within a district causes … more leftist roll call voting. This occurs because a Democrat is more likely to hold the seat, but also because – in … contrast to existing empirical work – partisan composition has a direct effect on the roll call voting of individual …

that increases in income are conducive to increases in democracy levels. This doubt stems mainly from the fact that while a … strong positive correlation exists between income and democracy levels, the relationship disappears when one controls for …, such as institutional quality. In this paper, we reexamine the robustness of the income-democracy relationship. We extend …