COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS, CONSTITUENT PREFERENCES, AND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

The Problem of Social Cost

2016 • 11,428 citations

The Problem of Social Cost

1960 • 10,187 citations

The Theory of Economic Regulation

1971 • 7,328 citations

Estimation of Relationships for Limited Dependent Variables

1958 • 6,642 citations

The Theory of Economic Regulation

2021 • 5,914 citations

Bureaucracy and representative government

1971 • 5,156 citations

A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

1983 • 4,186 citations

Congress, The Electoral Connection

1975 • 4,005 citations

The Uses of Tobit Analysis

1980 • 1,817 citations

The control of politicians: An economic model

1973 • 1,571 citations

The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets

1988 • 1,541 citations

Bureaucratic Discretion or Congressional Control? Regulatory Policymaking by the Federal Trade Commission

1983 • 1,445 citations

The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power

1987 • 769 citations

Legislators and Interest Groups: How Unorganized Interests Get Represented

1986 • 728 citations

The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power

2008 • 682 citations

Collective Decisionmaking and Standing Committees: An Informational Rationale for Restrictive Amendment Procedures

1987 • 674 citations

A Rational Choice Perspective on Congressional Norms

1979 • 660 citations

A Dead Senator Tells No Lies: Seniority and the Distribution of Federal Benefits

1990 • 502 citations

The congressional-bureaucratic system: a principal agent perspective (with applications to the SEC)

1984 • 494 citations

An Assessment of the Positive Theory of 'Congressional Dominance'

1987 • 439 citations

Interest groups, campaign contributions, and probabilistic voting

1987 • 389 citations

Are Congressional Committees Composed of Preference Outliers?

1990 • 289 citations

PACs and the Congressional Supermarket: The Currency is Complex

1989 • 288 citations

Campaign Contributions and Congressional Voting: A Simultaneous Probit-Tobit Model

1982 • 280 citations

PACs, Contributions, and Roll Calls: An Organizational Perspective

1985 • 278 citations

Gatekeeping and Monopoly Power of Committees: An Analysis of Sincere and Sophisticated Behavior

1983 • 263 citations

Money and votes reconsidered: congressional elections, 1972?1982

1985 • 258 citations

When Do Rules of Procedure Matter?

1984 • 155 citations

Patterns of political action committee contributions to the 1980 campaigns for the United States House of Representatives

1985 • 154 citations

Universalism in Congress

1985 • 150 citations

The Rationality of Ideology

1989 • 138 citations

The economics of campaign funds

1974 • 136 citations

Antitrust Pork Barrel

1982 • 135 citations

The impact of legislator attributes on interest-group campaign contributions

1986 • 116 citations

Participation and Purpose in Committee Decision Making

1987 • 113 citations

Organizational Maintenance and the Retention Decision in Groups

1988 • 97 citations

On money, votes, and policy in a democratic society

1974 • 91 citations

CONSTITUENT INTEREST VS. LEGISLATOR IDEOLOGY: THE ROLE OF POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY COST

1988 • 89 citations

Universalism and the Parties in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1921-80

1988 • 79 citations

Allocation of Desirable Committee Assignments: Extended Queues versus Committee Expansion

1988 • 71 citations

Campaign Expenditures and Political Competition

1976 • 51 citations

Complex Rules and Congressional Outcomes: An Event Study of Energy Tax Legislation

1988 • 44 citations

On the political participation of the firm in the electoral process: An update

1988 • 43 citations

A simple test of the thesis that committee jurisdictions shape corporate PAC contributions

1989 • 42 citations

The Little Legislatures: Committees of Congress.

1971 • 41 citations

Allocation patterns of PAC monies: The U.S. Senate

1990 • 40 citations

Union PAC contributions and legislative voting

1988 • 26 citations

Business, Money, and the Rise of Corporate PACs in American Elections

1989 • 18 citations

Regulatory Policymaking at the Federal Trade Commission: The Extent of Congressional Control

1986 • 17 citations

PARTY POLITICS AND THE PRICE OF PAYOLA

1988 • 11 citations