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Legislators' Demand for Firms' Financial Statements: Evidence from U.S. Congressional Redistricting Events

By: Matthew Ma, Jing Pan, Ethan Rouen and Laura Wellman

We investigate whether U.S. House representatives and their staff seek financial information from constituent firms to inform their legislative decisions. We exploit shifts in U.S. congressional districts (i.e., the reconfiguration of federal district lines or... View Details

Keywords: Redistricting; Lobbying; Legislators; Voting Behavior; Corporate Disclosure; Government Legislation; Voting; Behavior

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Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy?

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Maya Reddy

In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India were redrawn for the first time in three decades. We use detailed demographic and electoral data to construct measures of the extent of redistricting in a given constituency. We find the... View Details

Keywords: Political Elections; India

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15 Jan 2014
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Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World’s Largest Democracy?

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Maya Reddy

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Suffrage Association; National Woman’s Party; Lucy Stone; Susan B. Anthony; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Alice Paul; 20th Amendment; National League of Women’s Voters; feminism; Betty Friedan; Phyllis Schlafly; Equal Rights Amendment Manufacturing Constituencies: Race and... View Details

14 Jan 2014
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Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy? By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Maya Reddy Abstract—In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA

while most of Taylor’s came from individuals, including developers, investors, and oilmen from outside the district. Redistricting Threatened Edwards’s Seat INCUMBENT: The veteran of eight previous congressional campaigns, Edwards greeted... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

competitiveness. Transformation at this scale will take longer than the typical two-year political cycle, Ballou-Aares says, but already the organization is seeing the first wave of results. Its members are helping drive change in multiple states by creating objective... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

everyday voters. Among their recommendations: Change the election process so that it more fairly represents all voters, by gerrymandering reforms overseen by a nonpartisan redistricting panel, and open access to presidential debates to... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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