Can Special Interests Buy Congressional Votes? Evidence from Financial Services Legislation*

By Thomas Stratmann. Journal law and economy, 2002

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Why is There so Little Money in Politics (2003, background): “7 Two recent papers noted in Table 1—Bronars and Lott (1997) and Stratmann (2002)—attempt to address this problem by employing member-specific fixed effects, but these papers reach opposite conclusions about the importance of contributions.”
Congressional Politics of Financing the International Monetary Fund (2006, background): “Anecdotal evidence from peak organizations, industry groups, and congressional testimony suggests they do+ Organized labor connected the dots when the executive council of the AFL-CIO adopted a resolution in 1998 urging Congress to reject U+S+ participation in the IMF unless borrowers adopted strict”
In Search of El Dorado: The Elusive Financial Returns on Corporate Political Investments (2013, background): “of policy areas, including antidumping (Lee and Baik, 2010), financial service legislation (Stratmann, 2002), and airline legislation (Godwin and Seldon, 2002).”
Some talk: Money in politics. A (partial) review of the literature (2005, background): “Stratmann (2002) conducts such an analysis by examining two pieces of financial services legislation at different points in time.”
Individual Political Contributions and Firm Performance (2012, unknown): “For example, Stratmann (2002) examines voting decisions of politicians on two almost identical legislative initiatives at different points in time.”
The Jeffords Effect* (2006, background): “Stratmann (1998) finds that the timing of campaign donations often coincides with key legislative debates taking place in the current Congress as opposed to being timed to the election cycle when politicians are making campaign expenditures.”
Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress (2008, unknown): “11Baldwin and Magee (1998), Stratmann (2002) 12Ansolabehere et al. (2003) report a number of studies that have found mixed results in support of this hypothesis.”
The Political Economy of the US Mortgage Default Crisis (2008, unknown): “A substantial literature in political economy has emphasized how political contributions and congressional voting may be jointly determined (Stratmann (2002)), hence casting doubts on the quantitative soundness of estimates from a single-equation model as 31Using Federal Reserve Summary of Deposits…”