Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the U. S. House

By David S. Lee, Enrico Moretti, M. Butler. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Why do local governments privatise public services? A survey of empirical studies (2007, methodology): “Indeed, results from McGuire et al. (1987) for school buses and Feldman (1986) for urban buses support the hypothesis, as do the studies of Hirsch (1995), Stein (1990), Bel and Miralles (2003) and Dijkgraaf et al.”
Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey (2017, neutral): “…expenditures (categories: fish and game; forests and parks; other natural resources) was higher under 10 Scholars also exploit close vote margins of US House and Senate elections to explain politicians’ policy preferences (e.g., Lee et al. 2004; Albouy 2011; Fredriksson and Wang 2011).”
How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign (2013, neutral): “…for our purposes to specify whether the two candidates A and B implement their respective ideal policy position P once in office (see Ansolabehere, Snyder, and Stewart, 2001; Lee, Moretti, and Butler, 2004) or strategically cater their policy to voters (e.g., as in a standard Downsian setting).”
The political economy of passing climate change legislation: Evidence from a survey (2015, background): “Although the impact of party politics on environmental policy can be complex (Folke, 2014), we should therefore expect different trends in climate legislation depending on the political orientation of the parties in power (which in turn reflects the political views of voters, see Lee et al., 2004).”
How Legislators Respond to Localized Economic Shocks: Evidence from Chinese Import Competition (2015, background): “Studying the US House, Ansolabehere et al. (2001), Bafumi and Herron (2010), Lee et al. (2004), and McCarty et al. (2009) all show that Democratic and Republican candidates offer consistently different positions even when running for election in districts with similar underlying partisanship.”
Do Parties Matter for Economic Outcomes? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach (2008, neutral): “This paper is related to, but distinct from, the lit rature that investigates whether representatives from different political parties vote differently.6 Specifically, Lee et al. (2004) make use of a similar regression-discontinuity design in their study of the voting records of Democratic and Repub”