Who Gets the Goods? Moderate Voting Records, Diminishing Returns, and PAC Contributions

Assuming that a legislator representing a moderate constituency (with respect to a variety of interests) may be expected to vote moderately in general, the authors suggest a measure of the “moderateness” of a legislator’s voting behavior and use it to determine whether a relationship exists between PAC contributions and the degree of moderateness. The results suggest that PACs exhibit a tendency to give more, at the margin, to legislators with moderate voting records

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Dempster, Gregory M. ; Westley, Christopher
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Politikfinanzierung \| Political finance \| Politische Willensbildung \| Political opinion formation \| Politische Entscheidung \| Political decision

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (13 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Economics & Politics, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 321-333, November 2000 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 14, 2011 erstellt
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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