Campaign Contributions and Access
Author(s): David Austen-Smith
Source: The American Political Science Review, Vol. 89, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 566-581
Published by: American Political Science Association
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2082974
Goes through the 3 theories of campaign contributions and access.
Predicated on the idea that congressmen genuinely do have their own preferences and so PACs merely gain a chance to state their case in front of sympathetic legislators with consistent preferences. It is about providing information rather than changing prefs.
How is this measure of preferences made?
// Read this piece - overview of theoretical literature based on formal analysis
Is access what's important?
