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Vote Buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019
We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
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Vote Buying in the US Congress
Matter, Ulrich - 2019
We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861433
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Pitfalls of Demographic Forecasts of US Elections
Calvo, Richard; Pons, Vincent; Shapiro, Jesse M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
on US elections since 1952. We envision a forecaster who fits a model using data from a given election and uses that … each election will have a 50-50 partisan split. Enriching the set of demographics available does not change this conclusion …
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Do Pandemics Shape Elections? Retrospective voting in the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in the United States
Abad, Leticia; Maurer, Noel - 2020
In 2020, many observers were surprised that the COVID-19 outbreak did not appear to have swung the election. Early … also held an election in the middle of a devastating pandemic. Using county-level epidemiological, electoral, and … find no effect from flu mortality on turnout rates or on the 1920 presidential election. Our results hold using overall …
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Political Control Over Redistricting and the Partisan Balance in Congress
Coriale, Kenneth; Kolliner, Daniel A.; Kaplan, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
We estimate the impact of a political party's ability to unilaterally redistrict Congressional seats upon partisan seat share allocations in the U.S. House of Representatives. Controlling for stateXdecade and year effects, we find an 8.2 percentage point increase in the Republican House seat...
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Rethinking the partisan effects of higher turnpout : so what's the question?
Grofman, Bernard; Owen, Guillermo; Collet, Christian - In: Public choice 99 (1999) 3/4, pp. 357-376
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Parties and elections in corporate America
Reiter, Howard L. - 1987
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The electoral college and voter participation : evidence on two hypotheses
Cebula, Richard J. - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 29 (2001) 3, pp. 304-310
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Class and party in the Eisenhower Years : class roles and perspectives in the 1952 and 1956 elections
Eulau, Heinz - 1962
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Polarized Primaries and Polarized Legislators : Examining the Influence of Primary Elections on Polarization in the U.S. House
Nielson, Lindsay; Visalvanich, Neil - 2013
the Cooperative Congressional Election Study and ideal point estimates for congressional primary election candidates to … extreme than general election voters, and candidates who run in primary elections with more polarized electorates are likewise …
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