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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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Campaigns, political mobility, and communication

Gersbach, Hans - 2011 - This version: January 2011

We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show that if donations were prohibited, then a unique equilibrium regarding the position choices of candidates would exist. With unrestricted financing of political campaigns two...

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Politician's Ideology and Campaign Contributions from Interest Groups

Choi, Sungmun - 2014

This paper studies the effect of a politician's ideological strength on campaign contributions that the politician … campaign contributions to ideologically neutral politicians who are often pivotal voters in the legislature. However, if … campaign contributions to liberal (conservative, respectively) politicians. In this paper, I first develop a model …

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Does public attention reduce the influence of moneyed interests? : policy positions on SOPA/PIPA before and after the internet blackout

Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2019

We investigate the role of public attention in determining the effect that campaign contributions by interest groups … campaign contributions funded by the affected industries and legislators' positions. However, this relationship evaporates once …

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Political connections, allocation of stimulus spending, and the jobs multiplier

Choi, Joonkyu; Penciakova, Veronika; Saffie, Felipe - 2021

unique database that links information on campaign contributions, state legislative elections, firm characteristics, and ARRA …

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Regional Trade Agreements and Cross-Border Lobbying: Empirical Evidence from the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement Negotiations

Stoyanov, Andrey - Department of Economics, York University - 2015

shorter in the partner country. This result provides evidence on the involvement of industry lobbying in negotiation of … regional trade agreements and suggests that countries negotiating trade agreements are responsive to the interests of lobbying …

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Political connections, allocation of stimulus spending, and the jobs multiplier

Choi, Joonkyu; Penciakova, Veronika; Saffie, Felipe - 2021

unique database that links information on campaign contributions, state legislative elections, firm characteristics, and ARRA …

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Corporate campaign contributions as a predictor for abnormal stock returns after presidential elections

Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael - 2008

Contributions by investor-owned companies play major roles in financing the campaigns of candidates for elective office … in the United States. We look at the presidential level and analyze contributions by companies before an election and … abnormal positive post-election returns with (i) a higher percentage of contributions given to the eventual winner and (ii …

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Inferring the Ideological Affliations of Political Committees via Financial Contributions Networks

Chen, Yiran - 2017

affiliations of political committees based on the network of the financial contributions among them. In Monte Carlo simulations, we …

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Reputation shocks and strategic responses in electoral campaigns

Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021

Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both incumbent and challenger increase their campaign...

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