Seniority, political experience, and support for government spending in the US House: a culture of spending?
Seniority, political experience, and support for government spending in the US House: a culture of spending?
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美国众议院的资历、政治经验和对政府支出的支持：支出文化？
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10.1007/s11127-016-0356-1
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2016
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Renee Renegar
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James C. Garand;Rebekah Myers;Renee Renegar
Payne (1991a) 假设美国国会存在一种“支出文化”，国会议员通过社会化来增加他们对更多支出的点名支持，这取决于服务年限和对华盛顿文化的了解。在本文中，我们开发并测试了关于支出问题的唱名投票的扩展模型，重点关注社会化效应的两个潜在来源：（1）接触华盛顿的支出文化，主要是通过资历和与华盛顿特区的距离，以及（2）成员在当选为国会议员之前积累的政治经验。使用第 93 届至第 107 届国会美国众议院议员的数据，我们估计了一系列模型，在这些模型中，我们将国家纳税人联盟的得分解释为资历、以前的政治经验、个人属性和一系列选区变量的函数。我们发现，资历和政治经验的影响强烈且一致，资深成员和具有丰富政治经验的人比其他成员更有可能支持更多支出。这些发现经受住了一系列稳健性测试。
Payne (1991a) postulates that there is a “culture of spending” in the US Congress, whereby members of Congress are socialized to increase their roll-call support for more spending as a function of length of service and exposure to the Washington culture. In this article we develop and test an expanded model of roll-call voting on spending matters, focusing on two potential sources of socialization effects: (1) exposure to the Washington culture of spending, primarily through seniority and proximity to Washington, DC, and (2) previous political experiences developed before members are elected to Congress. Using data for US House members from the 93rd through the 107th Congresses, we estimate a series of models in which we explain National Taxpayer Union scores as a function of seniority, previous political experience, personal attributes, and a range of constituency variables. We find strong and consistent seniority and political experience effects, with senior members and those with extensive political experience more likely to support greater spending than other members. These findings withstand a range of robustness tests.