<ItemContent> The spatial location of candidates is important in determining the pattern of campaign contributions. Many PACs and all PAC types, except agricultural cooperatives, contribute in a manner highly consistent with a simple spatial model. There is little giving by an individual PAC to candidates at...</itemcontent>

This paper shows a variety of evidence that members of Congress are ideologically consistent. Based upon the roll call voting record, once elected to Congress, members adopt a consistent ideological position and maintain it over time. There may be changing minds, but they are not in Congress....

As a measure of the component of electoral change resulting from candidate selection variables, the foregoing regression analysis suggested that about 3% of all voters in the districts considered change their votes as a consequence of candidate selection policies. In competitive elections, these...

This paper applies a game-theoretic model of participation under uncertainty to investigate the negative relationship between constituency size and voter turnout rates: theconstituency size effect. We find that this theoretical model accounts for almost all of the variation in turnout due to...

There are several major insights which this game theoretic analysis has produced. First, we have shown that equilibria exist with substantial turnout even when both the majority is much larger than the minority and the costs of voting are exceptionally high. For example, in large electorates...

The authors apply a dynamic spatial model to interest group ratings of the members of Congress over the period 1959-81. Spatial distances between an interest group and the members of Congress are assumed to be monotonic with the ratings. Their pooled cross-sectional time-series data set consists...