political committee interest vote bill congress congressional voting group member house federal senate support policy senator party republican preference

0.53 Deepak Hegde, Political Influence behind the Veil of Peer Review: An Analysis of Public Biomedical Research Funding in the United States, Journal of Law and Economics, 2009.
0.45 Thomas A. Garrett, A Test of Shirking under Legislative and Citizen Vote: The Case of State Lottery Adoption, Journal of Law and Economics, 1999.
0.41 Keith T. Poole Howard Rosenthal, The Enduring Nineteenth-Century Battle for Economic Regulation: The Interstate Commerce Act Revisited, Journal of Law and Economics, 1993.
0.37 Douglas A. Irwin Randall S. Kroszner, Interests Institutions and Ideology in Securing Policy Change: The Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization after Smoot‐Hawley, Journal of Law and Economics, 1999.
0.35 John M. de Figueiredo Brian S. Silverman, Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying, Journal of Law and Economics, 2006.
0.34 Amy Whritenour Ando, Waiting to Be Protected under the Endangered Species Act: The Political Economy of Regulatory Delay, Journal of Law and Economics, 1999.
0.33 Jeffrey Milyo, Electoral and Financial Effects of Changes in Committee Power: The Gramm‐Rudman‐Hollings Budget Reform The Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the Money Committees in the House, Journal of Law and Economics, 1997.
0.31 James B. Kau Paul H. Rubin, Self-Interest Ideology and Logrolling in Congressional Voting, Journal of Law and Economics, 1979.
0.31 Joshua B. Fischman, Estimating Preferences of Circuit Judges: A Model of Consensus Voting, Journal of Law and Economics, 2011.
0.31 Roger L. Faith Donald R. Leavens Robert D. Tollison, Antitrust Pork Barrel, Journal of Law and Economics, 1982.
0.30 Douglas A. Irwin, Antebellum Tariff Politics: Regional Coalitions and Shifting Economic Interests, Journal of Law and Economics, 2008.
0.28 Joseph P. Kalt Mark A. Zupan, The Apparent Ideological Behavior of Legislators: Testing for Principal-Agent Slack in Political Institutions, Journal of Law and Economics, 1990.
0.28 Thomas W. Gilligan William J. Marshall Barry R. Weingast, Regulation and the Theory of Legislative Choice: The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. Journal of Law and Economics, 1989,
0.27 Rui J. P. de Figueiredo_ Jr._Richard G. Vanden Bergh, The Political Economy of State‐Level Administrative Procedure Acts, Journal of Law and Economics, 2004.
0.26 W. Mark Crain Timothy J. Muris, Legislative Organization of Fiscal Policy, Journal of Law and Economics, 1995.
0.24 Gary M. Anderson Robert D. Tollison, Congressional Influence and Patterns of New Deal Spending 1933-1939. Journal of Law and Economics, 1991,
0.23 Julius Margolis, Bureaucrats and Politicians: Comment, Journal of Law and Economics, 1975.
0.22 Sara Fisher Ellison Wallace P. Mullin, Economics and Politics: The Case of Sugar Tariff Reform, Journal of Law and Economics, 1995.
0.21 John M. De Figueiredo Emerson H. Tiller, Congressional Control of the Courts: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Expansion of the Federal Judiciary, Journal of Law and Economics, 1996.
0.20 Avi Ben-Bassat, Conflicts Interest Groups and Politics in Structural Reforms, Journal of Law and Economics, 2011.
0.18 Tony Caporale Kevin B. Grier, A Political Model of Monetary Policy with Application to the Real Fed Funds Rate, Journal of Law and Economics, 1998.
0.17 William R. Dougan Michael C. Munger, The Rationality of Ideology, Journal of Law and Economics, 1989.
0.17 Sam Peltzman, Constituent Interest and Congressional Voting, Journal of Law and Economics, 1984.