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Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress

Bombardini, Matilde - 2007

interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share … estimates of electoral uncertainty and politicians effectiveness as perceived by the interest groups. Our approach also …

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Campaign contributions as a commitment device

Maniadis, Zacharias - In: Public choice 139 (2009) 3/4, pp. 301-315

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Essays in aggregate information, the media and special interests

Maniadis, Zacharias - 2008

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2020

We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we show that representatives are more likely to vote...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2024

We investigate whether US House representatives favour special interest groups over constituents in periods of low media attention to politics. Analysing 666 roll calls from 2005 to 2018, we show that representatives are more likely to vote against their constituency's preferred position the...

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An experimental study of alternative campaign finance systems : donations, elections and policy choices

Fang, Hanming; Shapiro, Dmitry; Zillante, Arthur - 2011

campaign finance systems are considered: a full anonymity (FA) system in which neither the politicians nor the voters are … informed about the donors' ideal policies or levels of donations; a partial anonymity (PA) system in which only the politicians … which both the politicians and the voters are informed about the donors' ideal policies and donations. We find that donors …

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An experimental study of alternative campaign finance systems : transparency, donations, and policy choices

Fang, Hanming; Shapiro, Dmitry; Zillante, Arthur - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 54 (2016) 1, pp. 485-507

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Votes or money? : Theory and evidence from the US Congress

Bombardini, Mathilde; Trebbi, Francesco - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003620692

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