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Voter Preferences and Political Change
Viktar Fedaseyeu
Erik Gilje
Philip Elliot Strahan
其他書名
Evidence from Shale Booms
出版
National Bureau of Economic Research
, 2015
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3bU8jwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Local interests change sharply after the energy booms that began in 2003, when hydraulic fracturing spurred extraction of formerly uneconomic oil and gas reserves. Support for conservative interests rises and Republican political candidates gain votes after booms, leading to a near doubling in the probability of a change in incumbency. All of this change occurs at the expense of Democrats. Voting records of U.S. House members from boom districts become sharply more conservative across a wide range of issues, including issues unrelated to energy policy. At the level of the individual, marginal candidates skew their voting behavior somewhat toward more conservative causes, but generally not enough to maintain power. Thus, even when the stakes are high and politicians risk losing power, ideology trumps ambition.
