Holding on to High Cotton: How Narrow Economic Interests Resist Policy Retrenchment

• In Event: Party Coalitions and Interests in Congressional Agendas

Brief Overview

I use population-scale administrative data on farm programs, alongside a natural experiment in farm program retrenchment, to assess the conditions under which policy feedback effects among mass and elite constituents shape the policymaking process.

Author

• Jake Jares, Stanford University