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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211217

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512422

The impact of Citizens United : how the removal of independent expenditure bans shaped U.S. gubernatorial elections

Balles, Patrick - 2024

This paper examines the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which lifted bans on independent expenditures by corporations and unions. Using a difference-in-differences design, the study compares states with and without pre-existing bans, focusing on gubernatorial elections. The...

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Was Obama elected by the internet? : broadband diffusion and voters' behavior in US presidential elections

Larcinese, Valentino; Miner, Luke - 2018

What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the … 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the … FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that internet penetration in US counties is associated with an increase in …

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943081

Media markets, special interests, and voters

Fergusson, Leopoldo - In: Journal of public economics 109 (2014), pp. 13-26

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Television market size and political accountability in the US house of representatives

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2022

This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to report relatively more per US House representative in less populous markets (where the number of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191645

Campaign Spending with Office-Seeking Politicians, Rational Voters, and Multiple Lobbies

Prat, Andrea - 2008

I introduce a microfounded model of campaign finance with office-seeking politicians, a continuum of voters, and a large number of heterogeneous lobbies. Lobbies make contributions to politicians according to a common agency framework. Politicians use contributions to finance their electoral...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192607

Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Balles, Patrick - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906525

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