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Analyzing the Agenda of the U.K. Parliament Over the Long Run

Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This article develops a method for quantitatively tracking the agenda of the British Parliament--by which I mean the …

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Endogenous Social Connections in Legislatures

Battaglini, Marco - 2019

We present a model of the U.S. Congress in which social connections among Congress members are endogenous and matter for their legislative activity. We propose a novel equilibrium concept for the network formation game that allows for a sharp characterization of equilibrium behavior and that...

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Party Influence in Congress and the Economy

Snowberg, Erik - 2006

To understand the extent to which partisan majorities in Congress influence economic policy, we compare financial market responses in recent midterm elections to Presidential elections. We use prediction markets tracking election outcomes as a means of precisely timing and calibrating the...

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Judicial Lobbying : The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation

Iaryczower, Matias - 2005

This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes,...

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Pork for Policy : Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil

Alston, Lee J. - 2005

The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 gave relatively strong powers to the President. We model and test Executive-Legislative relations in Brazil and demonstrate that Presidents have used pork as a political currency to exchange for votes on policy reforms. In particular Presidents Cardoso and Lula...

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Bargaining in Legislatures : An Empirical Investigation

Knight, Brian - 2004

While the theoretical literature on non-cooperative legislative bargaining has grown voluminous, there is little empirical work attempting to test a key prediction in this literature: proposal power is valuable. This paper aims to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the role of...

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Credibility and Policy Convergence : Evidence from U.S. House Roll Call Voting Records

Lee, David S. - 2002

Traditional models of politician behavior predict complete or partial policy convergence, whereby electoral competition compels partisan politicians to choose positions more moderate than their most-preferred policies. Alternatively, if politicians cannot overcome the inability to make binding...

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Freedom of Speech, Deterrence, and Compellence in the Parliament

Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

members of the Turkish Parliament, we find that losing immunity pacifies the MPs of the opposition parties. They become less … diligent in the Parliament (drafting fewer pieces of legislation, initiating fewer investigation inquiries, delivering fewer … the revocation of MP immunity are polarized. An individual's trust in the Parliament is decreased or increased based on …

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Is Trade Policy for Sale? Congressional Voting on Recent Trade Bills

Baldwin, Robert E. - 1998

This paper examines voting by members of Congress on three trade bills introduced in 1993 and 1994: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (GATT), and most-favored nation status for China. We first review...

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Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945

Irwin, Douglas A. - 1997

This paper investigates the factors explaining significant policy change by studying how bipartisan support developed to sustain the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA) of 1934. The RTAA fundamentally transformed both the process and outcome of U.S. trade policy: Congress delegated its...

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