| Publications [#15991] of Edward Tower
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- Gretchen Phillips and E. Tower, "Labor PAC Campaign Contributions and NAFTA Legislators: Rhetoric or Retribution?",
in Empirical Methods In International Trade: Essays in Honor of Mordechai E. Kreinin, edited by Michael Plummer
(2004 forthcoming), Edward Elgar [pdf]
(last updated on 2010/05/14)
Abstract: Prior to the congressional vote, organized labor threatened
to punish legislators who voted for NAFTA. Building on
work by Engel and Jackson, we explore whether or not
organized labor made good on its threat by reducing
campaign contributions to House members who voted YES. We
postulate contribution functions for both Democrats and
Republicans, with pre-NAFTA vote contributions on the
horizontal axis and post-NAFTA vote contributions on the
vertical axis. For members of both parties, we find that a
YES vote on NAFTA results in a change in the contribution
function, which is a combination of a downward proportional
shift and a downward parallel shift.
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