A critical review and an extension of the political shirking

The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance

1981 • 3,758 citations

Incumbent performance and electoral control

1986 • 2,181 citations

The control of politicians: An economic model

1973 • 1,571 citations

Candidate Motivation: A Synthesis of Alternative Theories

1983 • 823 citations

A theory of self-enforcing agreements

1987 • 649 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

How Efficient Is the Voting Market?

1990 • 173 citations

The Rationality of Ideology

1989 • 138 citations

On the (mis)measurement of legislator ideology and shirking

1993 • 119 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

IDEOLOGY AND LEGISLATOR SHIRKING

1987 • 95 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

Cycles in senatorial voting behavior: implications for the optimal frequency of elections

1978 • 84 citations

Elections and income redistribution

1986 • 79 citations

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

1987 • 70 citations

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

1991 • 56 citations

FAVORITE SONS: INTERGENERATIONAL WEALTH TRANSFERS AMONG POLITICIANS

1985 • 50 citations

INFORMATION AND EFFICIENCY

1955 • 32 citations

Entry barriers in politics and uncontested elections

1992 • 30 citations

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

1989 • 24 citations

Televising Legislatures: An Economic Analysis

1986 • 14 citations

Time Dependent Information Costs, Price Controls, and Successive Government Intervention

1989 • 13 citations

Televising legislatures: Some thoughts on whether politicians are search goods

1988 • 12 citations