Who gets the goods? Moderate Voting Records, Diminishing Returns, and PAC Contributions

Gregory m. Dempster and Christopher Westley

Economics and Politics, 2000, vol. 12, issue 3, 321-333

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.

Date: 2000
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