Replication data for: Distributive Politics and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Seven US State Legislatures

Name: Replication data for: Distributive Politics and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Seven US State Legislatures
Published: 2012-04-01
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Keywords: Spending and legislative politics

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Toke S. Aidt; Julia Shvets

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Project Description

Summary: We study the effect of electoral incentives on the allocation of public services across legislative districts. We develop a model in which elections encourage legislators to cater to parochial interests and thus aggravate the common pool problem. Using unique data from seven US states, we study how the amount of funding that a legislator channels to his district changes when he faces a term limit. We find that legislators bring less pork to their district when they cannot seek re-election. Consistent with the Law of 1/N, this last term reduction in funding is smaller in states with many legislative districts. (JEL D72, H70)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Spending and legislative politics

JEL Classification:
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H70 State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: General

Geographic Coverage: Seven states of the US

Universe: Legislators in seven US state legislatures and their districts

Data Type(s): [administrative records data, census/enumeration data, other:]

Collection Notes: The authors matched data from sources 1 and 2 below using 3 (see paper for details).

Methodology

Data Source: 1) State Elections Database by Carsey et al. (2008) 2) US Census Bureau data 3) US Census Bureau Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System

Unit(s) of Observation: State legislative district,

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