Ideology Versus Partisanship: Regulatory Behavior and Cyclical Political Influence
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Ideology Versus Partisanship: Regulatory Behavior and Cyclical Political Influence
MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-10
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 05 Jul 2006
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Date Written: August 15, 2006
Abstract
We employ a unique data set of 41,137 commissioner votes in 8,252 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decisions and orders, reflecting every voted commission decision from 1976-2003, in order to examine those factors that determined commissioner voting at the FCC. We discover a cyclical relationship between commissioner party-line voting and the presidential election. We hypothesize a partisanship effect, tied to the presidential election cycle, which works separately from commissioners’ ideological preferences.
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Brown, Keith S. and Candeub, Adam, Ideology Versus Partisanship: Regulatory Behavior and Cyclical Political Influence (August 15, 2006). TPRC 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2117608
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