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Who gets the goods? Moderate Voting Records, Diminishing Returns, and PAC Contributions

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  • Gregory m. Dempster
  • Christopher Westley

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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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  • Gregory m. Dempster & Christopher Westley, 2000. "Who gets the goods? Moderate Voting Records, Diminishing Returns, and PAC Contributions," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(3), pages 321-333, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecopol:v:12:y:2000:i:3:p:321-333
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-0343.00080
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    1. Franklin Mixon & Rand Ressler & M. Gibson, 2009. "False advertising and experience goods: the case of political services in the U.S. senate," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 138(1), pages 83-95, January.
    2. Franklin Mixon & Chena Crocker & H. Black, 2007. "Pivotal power brokers: Theory and evidence on political fundraising," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 130(3), pages 503-503, March.
    3. Franklin G. Mixon & Rand W. Ressler & M. Troy Gibson, 2003. "Congressional Memberships as Political Advertising: Evidence from the U.S. Senate," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 70(2), pages 414-424, October.

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