Time series evidence on shirking in the U.S. House of Representatives

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Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint

1969 • 962 citations

Information and Efficiency:Another Viewpoint

1972 • 902 citations

Patterns of Congressional Voting

1991 • 824 citations

Capture and Ideology in the Economic Theory of Politics

1984 • 744 citations

Constituent Interest and Congressional Voting

1984 • 559 citations

Self-Interest, Ideology, and Logrolling in Congressional Voting

1979 • 414 citations

The Apparent Ideological Behavior of Legislators: Testing for Principal-Agent Slack in Political Institutions

1990 • 347 citations

Political cheating

1987 • 122 citations

On the (mis)measurement of legislator ideology and shirking

1993 • 119 citations

Ideology, voting, and shirking

1993 • 112 citations

Brand names and barriers to entry in political markets

1986 • 99 citations

Shirking and sorting in a political market with finite-lived politicians

1989 • 99 citations

A critical review and an extension of the political shirking literature

1992 • 97 citations

The last period problem in politics: Do congressional representatives not subject to a reelection constraint alter their voting behavior?

1990 • 93 citations

ATTENDANCE RATES, POLITICAL SHIRKING, AND THE EFFECT OF POST‐ELECTIVE OFFICE EMPLOYMENT

1990 • 90 citations

A Method of Estimating the Personal Ideology of Political Representatives

1984 • 72 citations

The effect of nontransferable property rights on the efficiency of political markets

1987 • 70 citations

An explanation for why senators from the same state vote differently so frequently

1994 • 59 citations

Does the Decision to Retire Increase the Amount of Political Shirking?

1991 • 56 citations

Shirking, representation, and Congressional behavior: Voting on the 1983 amendments to the Social Security Act

1990 • 56 citations

CAMPAIGN WAR CHESTS AS A BARRIER TO ENTRY IN CONGRESSIONAL RACES

1994 • 41 citations

Entry barriers in politics and uncontested elections

1992 • 30 citations

Shirking and political support in the U.S. Senate, 1964?1984

1993 • 29 citations

VOTING AND IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR

1994 • 27 citations

Explaining Challengers' Campaign Expenditures: the Importance of Sunk Nontransferable Brand Name

1989 • 24 citations

Looking beyond reelection: Revising assumptions about the factors motivating congressional behavior

1989 • 17 citations

A reexamination of the principal-agent relationship in politics

1994 • 13 citations

Televising legislatures: Some thoughts on whether politicians are search goods

1988 • 12 citations

A critical review and an extension of the political shirking

1992 • 4 citations