Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2015
College/Unit
Chambers College of Business and Economics
Document Number
15-35
Department/Program/Center
Economics
Abstract
After lengthy debate, the Keystone XL Pipeline bill passed in January 2015. We use this event to better understand the determinants of Senator voting behavior. Specifically, this paper attempts to examine the relative impacts of political and economic influences. This is accomplished through the use of a binary logit regression model with legislator vote as the dependent variable. Results indicate that while legislators do appear to be representing their political constituency, the role of campaign funding plays an important role as well. The economic effect of such funding, controlling for other factors, is quantitatively small.
Digital Commons Citation
Hall, Joshua C. and Shultz, Chris, "Determinants of Voting Behavior on the Keystone XL Pipeline" (2015). Economics Faculty Working Papers Series. 168.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/econ_working-papers/168