CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Venyige, Róbert |
|---|---|
| Title | Election Proximity and Voting Behavior of Politicians: The Case of the U.S. Senate and the Farm Bills |
| Summary | In my thesis I test whether the closeness to an election affects how members of the United States Senate vote in the case of agricultural legislation. I use a simple political agency model to explain the observed behavior of the senators and I show that when the electorates display "recent bias" senators optimally vote in a different way, depending on whether they are closer or farther way from election. I argue that using election proximity as an explanatory variable is a good way to test whether legislator preferences or electoral incentives motivate the voting of the senators. |
| Supervisor | Canidio, Andrea |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/venyige_robert.pdf |
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