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U.S. Appropriations Data, 1946-1985

Referenced Publications

Kiewiet, D. Roderick, and Mathew D. McCubbins. The Logic Of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Spring 1991.

Kiewiet, D. Roderick, and Mathew D. McCubbins. "Congressional Appropriations and the Electoral Connection." Journal of Politics, February 1985.

Kiewiet, D. Roderick, and Mathew D. McCubbins. "Appropriation Decisions as a Bilateral Bargaining Game Between the President and Congress." Legislative Studies Quarterly, May 1985.

Kiewiet, D. Roderick, and Mathew D. McCubbins. "Presidential Influence on Congressional Appropriation Decisions." American Journal of Political Science, August 1988.

Kiewiet, D. Roderick, and Mathew D. McCubbins. "Parties, Committees, and Policy Making in the U.S. Congress," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, November 1989.

Appropriations data by AGENCY/ ITEM LEVEL

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Appropriations data by DEPARTMENT LEVEL

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U.S. Budget Data

Referenced Publications

McCubbins, Mathew D. "Party Politics, Divided Government, and Budget Deficits, in The Politics of Economic Policy in The U.S. and Japan, edited by Samuel Kernell. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1991.

McCubbins, Mathew D. "Party Governance and U.S. Budget Deficits: Divided Control and Fiscal Stalemate," in Politics and Economics in the Eighties, edited by Alberto Alesina and Geoffrey Carliner, National Bureau of Economic Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

McCubbins, Mathew D. "Government on Lay-Away: Federal Spending and Deficits Under Divided Government," in The Politics of Divided Government, edited by Gary W. Cox and Samuel Kernell. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.

Cox, Gary W., and McCubbins, Mathew D. "Fiscal Policy and Divided Government," in The Politics of Divided Government, edited by Gary W. Cox and Samuel Kernell. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.

Budget data by FUNCTION

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Budget data: DEFICITS, TAX RECEIPTS, and TOTAL SPENDING

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U.S. Congressional Membership and Committee Assignments, 1st Congress -100th Congress

Referenced Publications

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House. Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring 1993.

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. "On the Decline of Party Voting in Congress." Legislative Studies Quarterly, November 1991.

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. "Party Coherence on Roll Call Votes in the U.S. House of Representatives," in Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System, edited by Joel H. Silbey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

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U.S. Congressional Roll Call Voting Data

Referenced Publications

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House. Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring 1993.

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. "On the Decline of Party Voting in Congress." Legislative Studies Quarterly, November 1991.

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. "Party Coherence on Roll Call Votes in the U.S. House of Representatives," in Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System, edited by Joel H. Silbey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

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Important Notice: Our datasets have been superceded by those created and maintained by Keith Poole which you may find at http://voteview.com/dwnl.htm

U.S. Congressional Legislative Histories

Referenced Publications

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House. Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring 1993.

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. "On the Decline of Party Voting in Congress." Legislative Studies Quarterly, November 1991.

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. "Party Coherence on Roll Call Votes in the U.S. House of Representatives," in Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System, edited by Joel H. Silbey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

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U.S. Congressional Rules Data

Referenced Publications

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House. Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring 1993.

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. "On the Decline of Party Voting in Congress." Legislative Studies Quarterly, November 1991.

Cox, Gary W., and Mathew D. McCubbins. "Party Coherence on Roll Call Votes in the U.S. House of Representatives," in Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System, edited by Joel H. Silbey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

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U.S. Federal Courts Data

Referenced Publications

McCubbins, Mathew D., Roger G. Noll, and Barry R. Weingast. "Political Control of the Judiciary: A Positive Theory of Judicial Doctrine and the Rule of Law." The Southern California Law Review, September 1995.

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U.S. Presidential Vetoes, 1st Congress -100th Congress

Referenced Publications

Kiewiet, D. Roderick, and Mathew D. McCubbins. The Logic Of Delegation: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Spring 1991.

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Canadian Budget Data

Data not used for any publications

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Japanese Budget Data

Referenced Publications

McCubbins, Mathew D. and Michael Thies. "As a Matter of Factions: The Budgetary Implications of Shifting Factional Control in Japan's LDP." Legislative Studies Quarterly, forthcoming August 1997.

McCubbins, Mathew D. and Gregory Noble."Equilibrium Behavior and the Appearance of Power: Legislators, Bureaucrats and the Budget Process in the U.S. and Japan," in Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States, eds. P. Cowhey and M. McCubbins. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 1995.

McCubbins, Mathew D. and Gregory Noble. "Perceptions and Realities of Japanese Budgeting," in Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States, eds. P. Cowhey and M. McCubbins. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 1995.

McCubbins, Mathew D. and Frances M. Rosenbluth. "Partisan Allocation of the Personal Vote in Japan and the United States," in Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States, eds. P. Cowhey and M. McCubbins. New York: Cambridge University Press, August 1995.

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State Tax, Expenditure and Initiative Data

When Does the Ballot Box Limit the Budget?  Politics and Spending Limits in California, Colorado, Utah and Washington (with Thad Kousser and Kaj Rozga).  In Elizabeth Garrett, Elizabeth A. Graddy and Howell Jackson, eds., Fiscal Challenges, Cambridge University Press, 2007  

For Whom the TEL Tolls: Can State Tax and Expenditure Limits Effectively Reduce Spending? (with Thad Kousser and Ellen Moule).  State Politics and Policy Quarterly.  Fall 2008

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Experiments on Persuasion and Delegation

Referenced Publications

Lupia, Arthur W. and Mathew D. McCubbins. The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Lupia, Arthur W. and Mathew D. McCubbins. Beyond Rationality: Reason and the Study of Politics, Elements of Reason, eds. Arthur Lupia, Mathew McCubbins, and Samuel Popkin. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 

Links to Web pages:

·        Experiments on Information, Persuasion, and Choice

·        Experiments on Delegation

·        Survey Experiments                       

·        Experiments on Learning and Decision Making

Event Studies

Referenced Publications

Lax, Jeff and Mathew D. McCubbins.  Courts, Congress and Public Policy, Part I: The FDA, the Courts and the Regulation of Tobacco.  Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 2006.  

Lax, Jeff and Mathew D. McCubbins.  Courts, Congress and Public Policy, Part II: The Impact of the Reapportionment Revolution on Urban and Rural Interests.  Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 2006.  

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