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Voter Preferences and Political Change: Evidence from Shale Booms / Viktar Fedaseyeu, Erik Gilje, Philip E. Strahan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fedaseyeu, Viktar.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21789.
- NBER working paper series no. w21789
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Voter Preferences and Political Change
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- Local interests change sharply after the energy booms that began in 2003, when hydraulic fracturing spurred extraction of formerly uneconomic oil and gas reserves. Support for conservative interests rises and Republican political candidates gain votes after booms, leading to a near doubling in the probability of a change in incumbency. All of this change occurs at the expense of Democrats. Voting records of U.S. House members from boom districts become sharply more conservative across a wide range of issues, including issues unrelated to energy policy. At the level of the individual, marginal candidates skew their voting behavior somewhat toward more conservative causes, but generally not enough to maintain power. Thus, even when the stakes are high and politicians risk losing power, ideology trumps ambition.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2015.
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