Does public election funding create more extreme legislators? Evidence from arizona and maine

State Politics and Policy Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-40

  Masket, Seth E ^a   Miller, Michael G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Campaign finance; Election rules; Legislative behavior; Legislative politics; Parties and elections; Parties and interest groups; Parties in legislatures; Political behavior; Roll call voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927700862     PISSN: 15324400     EISSN: 19461607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532440014563682     Document Type: Article

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