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Replication Data for: Does the Gift Keep on Giving?: House Leadership PAC Donations Before and After Majority Status

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Title Replication Data for: Does the Gift Keep on Giving?: House Leadership PAC Donations Before and After Majority Status
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/E5DJFS
 
Creator Ballard, Andrew
Aldrich, John
Lerner, Joshua
Rohde, David
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Party leaders face a significant tradeoff financing races when the party is out of power: while they care about gaining control of the House, they do not know how willing a potential representative will be to work with and for the party once elected. Leadership PAC (LPAC) contributions are a major mechanism of leadership control over the financing of congressional campaigns, with the hope of influencing the future behavior of candidates. We study differences between contributions of the LPACs for leaders of both parties conditional on majority status. We find that both majority and minority party leaders prioritize winning elections and ideological homogeneity in their donations, but that these trends are largely contingent on overall electoral conditions. In their contributions, majority party leaders pay more attention to ideological cohesion than minority party leaders, while minority party leaders are more interested in gaining seats in the House than majority party leaders.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Campaign Finance
US Congress
Political Parties
Political Action Committees
 
Language English
 
Contributor Ballard, Andrew