State data were used to develop an econometric model of voter turnout for an off year (1982) general election. The premise of the research was that existing voter turnout models lacked some of the true explanatory variables. In particular, the political efficacy component of the decision to vote...

The ability of politicians to concentrate the benefits of spending, while dispersing the costs of taxation makes taxation attractive (distributive politics), but the degree to which it is attractive varies widely among the states. The objective of the research was to develop a fully specified...

The primary aim of the research was to test the general hypothesis that many institutional and political variables affect fiscal outcomes; that the preferences of public officials, and the decision processes used to act on those preferences, matter. State government data (state only, not state...