Televised Legislatures: Political Information Technology and Public Choice

Our interest in studying televised legislatures was kindled by two episodes. The first was a series of rejections by the U.S. Senate between 1984 and 1986 of resolutions to permit live television coverage of floor proceedings. The second was the 1984 "Camscam affair," the media label given...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Crain, W. Mark, Goff, B. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1988, 1988
Edition:1st ed. 1988
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Architecture of Constitutions
  • 2 Political Information Technology and Public Choice: Background
  • Voter Shopping: Experience and Search
  • Product Advertising and Information Theory
  • Product Advertising as Political Advertising
  • Technology and the Costs of Campaigning
  • The Rational Voter Model
  • Televised Legislatures
  • History of Televised Legislatures
  • Summary
  • 3 Legislative Television: The Transformation of Politicians
  • The Relationship Between Citizens and Politicians
  • Political Services and the Content of Product Advertising
  • Technology and the Relative Cost of Acquiring Political Information: Experience versus Search
  • Summary
  • 4 The Effect of Televising Legislatures on Elections: The Case of U.S. State Legislatures
  • The Advantages to Incumbency in Televised Legislatures: State Lower Chamber
  • Test for Reverse Causation
  • State Upper Chambers
  • Summary
  • 5 The Effects of Televised Legislatures on Elections: The Case of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • U.S. House Races: Before Versus After TV
  • Test for Spurious Correlation
  • Summary
  • 6 The Effect of Televised Legislatures on the Output of Legislation
  • A Model of Television and Legislative Outcomes
  • Empirical Estimation
  • Summary
  • 7 The Politics of Adopting Televised Sessions
  • Political Influences on Legislators
  • Empirical Model of Support for Television in the U.S. Senate
  • Summary
  • 8 Modernity
  • Appendix 1 Data Sources
  • Appendix 2 Data