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0.49 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.
0.48 Thomas Stratmann, How Reelection Constituencies Matter: Evidence from Political Action Committees' Contributions and Congressional Voting, Journal of Law and Economics, 1996.
0.47 Thomas Stratmann, The Market for Congressional Votes: Is Timing of Contributions Everything?, Journal of Law and Economics, 1998.
0.46 Randall S. Kroszner Thomas Stratmann, Corporate Campaign Contributions Repeat Giving and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation, Journal of Law and Economics, 2005.
0.44 Thomas Stratmann, Can Special Interests Buy Congressional Votes? Evidence from Financial Services Legislation, Journal of Law and Economics, 2002.
0.44 Stephen G. Bronars John R. Lott_ Jr., Do Campaign Donations Alter How a Politician Votes? Or Do Donors Support Candidates Who Value the Same Things That They Do?, Journal of Law and Economics, 1997.
0.44 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.
0.43 James M. Snyder_ Jr., Long-Term Investing in Politicians; Or Give Early Give Often, Journal of Law and Economics, 1992.
0.42 Corbett A. Grainger, Redistricting and Polarization: Who Draws the Lines in California?, Journal of Law and Economics, 2010.
0.38 Keith T. Poole Howard Rosenthal, The Enduring Nineteenth-Century Battle for Economic Regulation: The Interstate Commerce Act Revisited, Journal of Law and Economics, 1993.
0.36 John M. de Figueiredo Brian S. Silverman, Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying, Journal of Law and Economics, 2006.
0.35 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.
0.32 Seema Jayachandran, The Jeffords Effect, Journal of Law and Economics, 2006.
0.29 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 Ebonya Washington, Do Majority-Black Districts Limit Blacks’ Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting, Journal of Law and Economics, 2012.
0.28 James B. Kau Paul H. Rubin, Self-Interest Ideology and Logrolling in Congressional Voting, Journal of Law and Economics, 1979.
0.27 Roger L. Faith Donald R. Leavens Robert D. Tollison, Antitrust Pork Barrel, Journal of Law and Economics, 1982.
0.25 Sam Peltzman, Constituent Interest and Congressional Voting, Journal of Law and Economics, 1984.
0.25 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,
0.24 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.
0.24 William R. Dougan Michael C. Munger, The Rationality of Ideology, Journal of Law and Economics, 1989.
0.22 Sanjay Gupta Charles W. Swenson, Rent Seeking by Agents of the Firm, Journal of Law and Economics, 2003.
0.22 , Errata: An Economic Explanation for the Existence and Nature of Political Ticket Splitting, Journal of Law and Economics, 1992.
0.20 Douglas A. Irwin, Antebellum Tariff Politics: Regional Coalitions and Shifting Economic Interests, Journal of Law and Economics, 2008.
0.20 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.
0.19 Roland G. Fryer Jr.Richard Holden, Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans, Journal of Law and Economics, 2011.
0.19 Duncan Black, On Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, Journal of Law and Economics, 1969.
0.19 W. Mark Crain, Districts Diversity and Fiscal Biases: Evidence from the American States, Journal of Law and Economics, 1999.
0.18 Thomas A. Garrett, A Test of Shirking under Legislative and Citizen Vote: The Case of State Lottery Adoption, Journal of Law and Economics, 1999.
0.18 Sara Fisher Ellison Wallace P. Mullin, Economics and Politics: The Case of Sugar Tariff Reform, Journal of Law and Economics, 1995.
0.17 Mark A. Zupan, An Economic Explanation for the Existence and Nature of Political Ticket Splitting, Journal of Law and Economics, 1991.
0.16 W. Mark Crain Timothy J. Muris, Legislative Organization of Fiscal Policy, Journal of Law and Economics, 1995.
0.16 Gary M. Anderson Robert D. Tollison, Congressional Influence and Patterns of New Deal Spending 1933-1939. Journal of Law and Economics, 1991,