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Constituent Interest and Congressional Voting
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The authors showed that congressional voting behavior can be analyzed using a simple principal-agent model, in which political competition constrains legislative agents to serve the interests of those who "pay" for their services with votes and other forms of political currency (for example, campaign funds).Citations
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Constituency Influence in Congress
TL;DR: The constituency influence over the lower house of Congress is commonly thought to be both a normative principle and a factual truth of American government as mentioned in this paper, and many political scientists feel regretfully that the Framers' wish has come all too true.
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Bureaucratic Discretion or Congressional Control? Regulatory Policymaking by the Federal Trade Commission
Barry R. Weingast,Mark J. Moran +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend Stigler and Peltzman's approach to regulation by incorporating a legislature, and then test between two opposing approaches about regulatory agency behavior, assuming agencies operate independently of the legislature and hence exercise discretion; the second assumes that Congress controls agency decisions.
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The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a theory of legislative institutions that parallels the theory of the firm and contract theory of contractual institutions, and explain why, given the peculiar form of bargaining problems found in legislatures, specific forms of nonmarket exchange prove superior to market exchange.
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Why is There so Little Money in Politics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that campaign contributions are not a form of policy-buying, but are rather a sign of political participation and consumption, and that individuals, not special interests, are the main source of campaign contributions.
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Patterns of congressional voting
Keith T. Poole,Howard Rosenthal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a dynamic, spatial analysis of the entire roll call voting record from 1789 to 1985 is presented, revealing a structure characterized by a predominant major dimension with, at times, a significant, but less important second dimension.