Televised Legislatures: Political Information Technology and Public Choice

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Abstract

1 The Architecture of Constitutions -- 2 Political Information Technology and Public Choice: Background -- Voter Shopping: Experience and Search -- Product Advertising and Information Theory -- Product Advertising as Political Advertising -- Technology and the Costs of Campaigning -- The Rational Voter Model -- Televised Legislatures -- History of Televised Legislatures -- Summary -- 3 Legislative Television: The Transformation of Politicians -- The Relationship Between Citizens and Politicians -- Political Services and the Content of Product Advertising -- Technology and the Relative Cost of Acquiring Political Information: Experience versus Search -- Summary -- 4 The Effect of Televising Legislatures on Elections: The Case of U.S. State Legislatures -- The Advantages to Incumbency in Televised Legislatures: State Lower Chamber -- Test for Reverse Causation -- State Upper Chambers -- Summary -- 5 The Effects of Televised Legislatures on Elections: The Case of the U.S. House of Representatives -- U.S. House Races: Before Versus After TV -- Test for Spurious Correlation -- Summary -- 6 The Effect of Televised Legislatures on the Output of Legislation -- A Model of Television and Legislative Outcomes -- Empirical Estimation -- Summary -- 7 The Politics of Adopting Televised Sessions -- Political Influences on Legislators -- Empirical Model of Support for Television in the U.S. Senate -- Summary -- 8 Modernity -- Appendix 1 Data Sources -- Appendix 2 Data.