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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949175

How do voters matter? : evidence from US congressional redistricting

Jones, Daniel B.; Walsh, Randall P. - In: Journal of public economics 158 (2018), pp. 25-47

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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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How Do Voters Matter? Evidence from US Congressional Redistricting

Jones, Daniel B. - 2016

impacts the district representative's roll call voting. We find that an increase in Democrat share within a district causes … more leftist roll call voting. This occurs because a Democrat is more likely to hold the seat, but also because - in … contrast to existing empirical work - partisan composition has a direct effect on the roll call voting of individual …

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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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'Green' Voting and Ideology : Lcv Scores and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate, 1988-1998

Nelson, Jon P. - 2013

This study evaluates the roles of ideology, constituency, and political party for roll-call voting in the U.S. Senate … on a broad set of environmental issues. The study estimates a model of political support using voting scores from the … for voting profiles on environmental issues; and party affiliation and regional loyalty explain about 74% of measured …

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'Green' Voting and Ideology : Lcv Scores and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate, 1988-1998

Nelson, Jon P. - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120033

Proxy Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives : Legislative Shirking in New Clothing?

Mixon Jr., Franklin G.; Torgler, Benno - 2022

voting by members of the U.S. House of Representatives that was introduced as an emergency measure to allow the Congress to … function during COVID-19. The core result from this study, given its finding that voting abstention during the prior session of … Congress is positively correlated with the use of proxy voting in the current session of Congress, indicates that proxy voting …

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Opening heaven's door : public opinion and congressional votes on the 1965 immigration act

Facchini, Giovanni; Hatton, Timothy J.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2021

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