Moneyed Interests, Information, and Action in Congress: A Survey Experiment

• In Event: Understanding Member Incentives

Brief Overview

This paper reports on an original survey experiment of more than 400 congressional staffers that simulates lobbying as information subsidy and the decision to act on a legislative request.

Authors

• Alexander C. Furnas, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Timothy M. LaPira, James Madison University

• Alexander Warren Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University in the City of New York

• Lee Drutman, New America

• Kevin Richard Kosar, R Street Institute