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Does public attention reduce the influence of moneyed interests? Policy positions on SOPA/PIPA before and after the internet blackout
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 4522263
Author(s) Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois
Author(s) at UniBasel Stutzer, Alois
Year 2019
Title Does public attention reduce the influence of moneyed interests? Policy positions on SOPA/PIPA before and after the internet blackout
Journal Economic Inquiry
Volume 57
Number 4
Pages / Article-Number 1879-1895
Abstract We investigate the role of public attention in determining the effect that campaign contributions by interest groups have on legislators` policy positions. We exploit the shock in public attention induced by the Internet service blackout of January 2012 that increased the salience of the Stop Online Piracy Act/Protect IP Act (SOPA/PIPA) bills aimed at stronger protection of property rights on the Internet. Using a new dataset of U.S. congressmen`s public statements, we find a strong statistical relationship between campaign contributions funded by the affected industries and legislators` positions. However, this relationship evaporates once the two bills become primary policy issues. Our results are consistent with the notion that legislators choose positions on secondary policy issues in order to cater to organized interests, whereas positions on primary policy issues are driven by electoral support.
Publisher Western Economic Association International
ISSN/ISBN 0095-2583
URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecin.12812
edoc-URL https://edoc.unibas.ch/73436/
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Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1111/ecin.12812
Document type (ISI) article
 
   

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