López, Edward; Campbell, Noel D. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 30 (2004) 3, pp. 349-363
In their survey of the legislator shirking literature, Bender and Lott (1996) point to 4 areas of relative consensus regarding legislator voting: 1. legislators almost always represent their constituents' interests, 2. when legislators do diverge from constituent interests, the adverse economic...