The Legislative Connection in Congressional Campaign Finance: A Quasi-Experimental Study

国会竞选财务中的立法联系：一项准实验研究

• 批准号: 9709300
• 负责人: Stephen Ansolabehere
• 金额: $ 15.36万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-15 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9709300&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Legislative; Connection; Congressional; Campaign; Finance

This proposal examines the campaign finance advantages held by incumbent Members of Congress. The disparity between incumbents' and challengers' campaign resources is commonly thought to reflect incumbents' positions and activities with the legislature. However, the sources of incumbents' campaign finance advantages are poorly understood. Through a series of quasi-experiments, this project ascertains the extent to which incumbents' financial advantages stem from office-holding, from positions or activities in the legislature, or from politicians' personal abilities and resources. By using turnover among members, both within office and within specific positions in Congress, this proposal isolates those factors that influence the distribution of campaign funds. The project develops a twenty-year data base of all contributions and legislative positions and activities. Data on contributions from specific Political Action Committees and individuals to candidates are drawn from the files of the Federal Election Commission. Data on the legislative positions of incumbents and activities in Congress from the Library of Congress Information Service and other public documents. The data set, with all the pairings of data, will be made available to the wider political science community. This project will add detailed information to debates over campaign finance.

该提案探讨了现任国会议员所拥有的竞选财务优势。 通常认为，现任者和挑战者的竞选资源之间的差异通常被认为反映了现任者与立法机关的职位和活动。 但是，众所周知，现任竞选财务优势的来源很少。 通过一系列准实验，该项目确定了任职者的财务优势在多大程度上源于办公室持有，源于立法机关的职位或活动，或政治家的个人能力和资源。 通过在办公室内部和国会特定职位内的成员之间使用营业额，该提议隔离了影响竞选资金分配的因素。 该项目在所有贡献以及立法立场和活动中建立了二十年的数据库。 从联邦选举委员会的档案中获取了有关特定政治行动委员会和个人对候选人的贡献的数据。 国会信息服务图书馆和其他公共文件的国会立法立场和活动的立法立场数据。 具有所有数据配对的数据集将提供给更广泛的政治科学界。 该项目将为有关竞选财务的辩论添加详细信息。