Abstract
The paper examines a consequence of the legislative agenda established by the 1994 Republican «Contract with America» (CWA). Through its myriad of block grant programs, the 104th and 105th Congresses which succeeded the CWA would work to increase discretionary public resources across the country by sending federal taxation revenues back to the 50 states. Such an action predictably leads to an increase in die value of holding state-wide legislative office according to public choice theory, and would therefore be expected to lead to an increase in the number of candidates for these offices. This study generates Parks regression results for various equations using state-wide House elections data before and after 1994 to support this contention.
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