Abstract
This paper examines the effect of legislator ideology, electoral incentives, and interest group political action committee (PAC) spending on the passage of the Agricultural Act of 2014. A mixed process model is used to examine the correlations between ideology, constituent characteristics, and PAC campaign contributions by agricultural and environmental interests and the probability that a legislator voted in favor of the bill. Instrumental variables are used to control for potential endogeneity in the effect of PAC contributions on legislators’ votes. I find a positive association between both agricultural and environmental PAC contributions and the probability that a legislator voted in favor of the bill. Further, I find that legislators representing districts or states with relatively large rural populations were more likely to vote in favor of the 2014 Farm Bill.
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