Money and Rhetoric: Energy Sector Dynamics In U.S. Senate Committee
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-22-2019
Department
Political Science, International Development, and International Affairs
School
Social Science and Global Studies
Abstract
The sequencing of the relationship between campaign contributions and legislative rhetoric is categorized by competing theories as being driven by lags, leads, and contemporaneous effects. We study the committee level dynamics between energy sector donations and legislative rhetoric in the U.S. Senate. Conditioning on party and Senate class, we find evidence for complex interactions that are characterized by a combination of various temporal responses. Individual dynamics — electoral vulnerability, geographical differences and the state-specific importance of the sector — lead to stronger connections between campaign contributions and rhetoric.
Publication Title
The Social Science Journal
Recommended Citation
Iliev, I. R.,
Brandt, P. T.
(2019). Money and Rhetoric: Energy Sector Dynamics In U.S. Senate Committee. The Social Science Journal.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/16946