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Who Gets the Goods? Moderate Voting Records, Diminishing Returns, and PAC Contributions
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Who Gets the Goods? Moderate Voting Records, Diminishing Returns, and PAC Contributions

Gregory m. Dempster and Christopher Westley
Economics and politics, Vol.12(3), pp.321-333
11-2000

Abstract

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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