The empirical literature on legislator behavior attributes significant explanatory power to interest group vote scores. The literature has also dichotomized the interpretation of these scores as either ideological shirking or market signaling. Most studies simply regress a residualized vote...

The paper examines the political economy process culminating in the first Oklahoma Land Run; it adapts Schumpeter's theory of the entrepreneur to the political process, and uses the "political entrepreneur"; to dynamically link the theories of Peltzman and Olson. The Land Rush is analyzed as...