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Replication data for: Drawing Your Senator From a Jar: Term Length and Legislative Behavior

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Title Replication data for: Drawing Your Senator From a Jar: Term Length and Legislative Behavior
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/26253
 
Creator Titiunik, Rocio
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This paper studies the effect of term duration on legislative behavior using field experiments that occur in the Arkansas, Illinois and Texas Senates in the United States. After mandatory changes in senate district boundaries, state senators are randomly assigned to serve either two-year or four-year terms, providing a rare opportunity to study legislative behavior experimentally. Despite important differences across states, when considered together, the results show that senators serving two years abstain more often, introduce fewer bills, and do not seem to be more responsive to their constituents than senators serving four years. In addition, senators serving shorter terms raise and spend significantly more money --although in those states where funds can be raised continuously during the legislative term, the differences arise only when the election is imminent.
 
Subject Term length
Legislative Behavior
State Senate
Legislatures
United States
 
Date 2014-06-06
 
Type Experimental data