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Empirical analysis of campaign contributions and Congressional 'greeness'


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dc.contributor.advisorLaband, David
dc.contributor.advisorTeeter, Lawrence D.en_US
dc.contributor.advisorZhang, Yaoqien_US
dc.contributor.authorTanger, Shaunen_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-09T21:16:10Z
dc.date.available2008-09-09T21:16:10Z
dc.date.issued2006-08-15en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10415/294
dc.description.abstract“Legislators possess political assets that economic interest groups may find valuable in pursuing their goals”. This quote made by Kevin Grier and Michael Munger provides the impetus for my analysis. In the following paper I apply this theory to specific environmental legislation and ask the following question. Do politicians, who vote favorably for the environment, experience “consumer” approval in the form of differentially high campaign contributions relative to politicians who do not vote in favor of environmentally-friendly policies? This paper asks whether or not the quotation above applies in the environmental arena. The model used to indicate such ‘legislative attributes’ has been augmented with a scoring system for a congressman’s environmental voting record. Through this model I attempt to discover whether or not congressmen face a financial incentive to vote favorably on environmental issues.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectForestry and Wildlife Sciencesen_US
dc.titleEmpirical analysis of campaign contributions and Congressional 'greeness'en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.embargo.lengthNO_RESTRICTIONen_US
dc.embargo.statusNOT_EMBARGOEDen_US

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