Essays in political economics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation consists of three self-contained but related chapters addressing topics in empirical political economy. Though the applications differ, the chapters share a common methodological approach: each chapter first develops a microeconomic model of behavior and then estimates the parameters of the model using observational data. The first chapter, "The Informational Content of Campaign Advertising, " examines alternative mechanisms for the influence of political advertising on voter behavior. Using a dataset of advertising exposures and election outcomes in statewide elections, I measure how much of advertising's effectiveness can be attributed to the provision of information to voters, and how much to non-informative or "persuasive" effects. I find small but nontrivial advertising effects, of which almost all can be attributed to the persuasive channel. The second chapter, "Dividing the Dollar with Formulas, " proposes a model of legislative bargaining in which legislators allocate a budget subject to the constraint that allocations must be conditioned on a set of district covariates of limited dimension. I discuss some implications for the structure of coalitions and the outcomes of distributive politics, and then estimate the degree to which this constraint binds in the allocation decisions of the US Congress. I find that formulaic allocation substantially reduces Congress' ability to target funds to politically marginal districts. The final chapter, "Testing Theories of Congressional-Presidential Interaction with Veto Override Rates, " uses data on veto-override votes in Congress to test several game-theoretic models of interactions between the President and Congress. A version of this chapter appears in Political Analysis, vol. 20 (2012), pp. 501-519.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Martin, Gregory (Gregory J.) |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. |
| Primary advisor | Callander, Steven |
| Thesis advisor | Callander, Steven |
| Thesis advisor | Benkard, C. Lanier |
| Thesis advisor | Hartmann, Wesley R. (Wesley Robert), 1973- |
| Thesis advisor | Yurukoglu, Ali |
| Advisor | Benkard, C. Lanier |
| Advisor | Hartmann, Wesley R. (Wesley Robert), 1973- |
| Advisor | Yurukoglu, Ali |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Gregory John Martin. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Business. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Gregory John Martin
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
Also listed in
Loading usage metrics...