James Millett Snyder

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PhD Political Science Princeton University
Masters Political Science Princeton University
Bachelors Political Science Stanford University

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Why is There so Little Money in Politics (2003) (804)
Press Coverage and Political Accountability (2008) (686)
Candidate Positioning in U.S. House Elections (2001) (684)
The Strength of Issues: Using Multiple Measures to Gauge Preference Stability, Ideological Constraint, and Issue Voting (2008) (572)
Political Parties and the Distribution of federal Outlays (1995) (536)
Estimating Party Influence in Congressional Roll-Call Voting (2000) (490)
An Informational Rationale for Political Parties (2002) (489)
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes (1995) (475)
Linear Probability Models of the Demand for Attributes with an Empirical Application to Estimating the Preferences of Legislators (1996) (432)
Election Goals and the Allocation of Campaign Resources (1989) (402)
Campaign Contributions as Investments: The U.S. House of Representatives, 1980-1986 (1990) (400)
Valence Politics and Equilibrium in Spatial Election Models (2000) (393)
Old Voters, New Voters, and the Personal Vote (2000) (370)
Buying Supermajorities (1996) (359)
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress (1999) (358)
The Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections: An Analysis of State and Federal Offices, 1942–2000 (2002) (356)
Party Control of State Government and the Distribution of Public Expenditures (2003) (322)
On the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design for Estimating Electoral Effects: New Evidence from over 40,000 Close Races (2014) (287)
Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers (2007) (281)
The Effects of Party and Preferences on Congressional Roll Call Voting (2001) (260)
ON BUYING LEGISLATURES (1991) (236)
Are PAC Contributions and Lobbying Linked? New Evidence from the 1995 Lobby Disclosure Act (2002) (234)
Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and Public Expenditures in the American States (2002) (203)
Legislative Bargaining under Weighted Voting (2005) (199)
Newspaper Coverage of Political Scandals (2011) (180)
Artificial Extremism in Interest Group Ratings (1992) (179)
Voting Weights and Formateur Advantages in the Formation of Coalition Governments (2003) (179)
Purple America (2005) (177)
An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamics of PAC Contributions (1994) (174)
Vote Buying, Supermajorities, and Flooded Coalitions (2000) (156)
Legislative Effectiveness and Legislative Careers (2006) (143)
On the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design for Estimating Electoral Effects: New Evidence from Over 40,000 Close Races: ON THE VALIDITY OF THE ELECTORAL REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DESIGN (2015) (141)
Primary Elections and Partisan Polarization in the U.S. Congress (2010) (128)
Comparing Committee and Floor Preferences (1994) (119)
Bargaining in Bicameral Legislatures: When and Why Does Malapportionment Matter? (2003) (111)
Patronage and Elections in U.S. States (2011) (105)
The Judge, the Politician, and the Press: Newspaper Coverage and Criminal Sentencing across Electoral Systems † (2015) (105)
Using Term Limits to Estimate Incumbency Advantages When Officeholders Retire Strategically (2004) (102)
Television and the Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections (2006) (95)
Roll Calls, Party Labels, and Elections (2003) (94)
"The Orientation of Newspaper Endorsements in U.S. Elections, 1940-2002 (2006) (94)
Distributive Politics and the Law of 1/n* (2008) (89)
Fairness, self-interest, and the politics of the progressive income tax (1983) (87)
Did Firms Profit from Soft Money (2004) (84)
The Decline of Third-Party Voting in the United States (2007) (83)
“Committee Power, Structure-Induced Equilibria, and Roll Call Voting, (1992) (82)
THE MARKET FOR CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS: EVIDENCE FOR THE U.S. SENATE 1980-1986 (1993) (78)
Empirical Studies of Media Bias (2015) (77)
Testing Models of Distributive Politics Using Exit Polls to Measure Voters' Preferences and Partisanship (2013) (75)
Party Strength, the Personal Vote, and Government Spending (2010) (72)
Majority-Rule Bargaining and the Under Provision of Public Investment Goods (2000) (71)
The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis: Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880 (2011) (70)
Gubernatorial Midterm Slumps (2012) (70)
Elections and reform: The adoption of civil service systems in the U.S. states (2013) (69)
Using Multimember District Elections to Estimate the Sources of the Incumbency Advantage (2009) (69)
Estimating Party Influence on Roll Call Voting: Regression Coefficients versus Classification Success (2001) (67)
Electoral Selection with Parties and Primaries (2011) (64)
Media Coverage of Political Scandals (2008) (60)
Interest Groups and the Electoral Control of Politicians (2005) (60)
The incumbency advantage in U.S. primary elections (2007) (57)
THE BALANCED US PRESS (2015) (57)
Money and Institutional Power (1999) (56)
Primary Elections and the Quality of Elected Officials (2014) (55)
The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote and the Transformation of American Politics (2008) (53)
EQUAL VOTES, EQUAL MONEY:COURT-ORDERED REDISTRICTING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OFPUBLIC EXPENDITURES IN THE AMERICAN STATES (2002) (52)
SAFE SEATS, MARGINAL SEATS, AND PARTY PLATFORMS: THE LOGIC OF PLATFORM DIFFERENTIATION* (1994) (52)
Why Roll Calls? A Model of Position-Taking in Legislative Voting and Elections (2005) (51)
Equilibrium and efficiency in an organized vote market (1996) (51)
Unrepresentative Information The Case of Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance (2005) (50)
Revealing Malfeasance: How Local Media Facilitates Electoral Sanctioning of Mayors in Mexico (2014) (48)
Is more information always better? Party cues and candidate quality in U.S. judicial elections (2015) (44)
Primary Elections in the United States (2019) (44)
How Much of the Incumbency Advantage is Due to Scare-Off? (2015) (42)
Online Auction Fraud: Are the Auction Houses Doing All They Should or Could to Stop Online Fraud? (2000) (42)
"Constituency Preferences: California ballot Propositions, 1974-1990" (1996) (42)
What Happens to Incumbents in Scandals (2012) (41)
Soft Money, Hard Money, Strong Parties (2000) (40)
Do Judges’ Characteristics Matter? Ethnicity, Gender, and Partisanship in Texas State Trial Courts (2016) (38)
Are PAC Contributions and Lobbying Linked (2002) (37)
Party and Incumbency Cues in Voting: Are They Substitutes? (2006) (36)
More Democracy: The Direct Primary and Competition in U.S. Elections (2010) (36)
Are rents fully dissipated? (1993) (35)
A Gubernatorial Helping Hand? How Governors Affect Presidential Elections (2012) (35)
Voter Learning in State Primary Elections (2015) (34)
Campaign War Chests in Congressional Elections (2000) (32)
Assessing the External Validity of Election RD Estimates: An Investigation of the Incumbency Advantage (2014) (31)
When parties are not teams: party positions in single-member district and proportional representation systems (2012) (30)
Bargaining in Bicameral Legislatures (2003) (30)
Testing Models of Distributive Politics Using Exit Polls to Measure Voter Preferences and Partisanship (2006) (30)
Newspaper Market Structure and Behavior: Partisan Coverage of Political Scandals in the United States from 1870 to 1910 (2016) (30)
Interpreting the Coefficient of Party Influence: Comment on Krehbiel (2003) (29)
Partisan Imbalance in Regression Discontinuity Studies Based on Electoral Thresholds (2014) (29)
Two's Company, Three's an Equilibrium: Strategic Voting and Multicandidate Elections (2009) (29)
Money, Elections, and Candidate Quality (1996) (28)
Distributive Politics with Primaries (2009) (28)
Leveling the Playing Field: How Campaign Advertising Can Help Non-Dominant Parties (2016) (28)
Political and Economic Determinants of Government Spending on Social Protection Programs (2000) (27)
Publicising Malfeasance: When the Local Media Structure Facilitates Electoral Accountability in Mexico (2020) (26)
Challenger Quality and the Incumbency Advantage (2016) (25)
The Balanced U.S. Press (2011) (25)
Information and Wasted Votes: A Study of U.S. Primary Elections (2015) (25)
What Did the Direct Primary Do to Party Loyalty in Congress (2007) (25)
Is Private Campaign Finance a Good Thing? Estimates of the Potential Informational Benefits (2006) (23)
Party Polarization in Legislatures with Office-Motivated Candidates (2017) (22)
Political and Economic Determinants of Changes in Government Spending on Social Protection Programs (2000) (22)
How Newspapers Reveal Political Power (2018) (22)
Do Multimember Districts Lead to Free‐Riding? (2007) (20)
“State Legislative Elections, 1967-2003: Announcing the Completion of Cleaned and Newly (2008) (18)
State Legislative Elections, 1967–2003: Announcing the Completion of a Cleaned and Updated Dataset (2008) (18)
Television and the Incumbency Advantage (2007) (18)
Resource Allocation in Multiparty Elections (1990) (17)
Legislative Effectiveness and Legislative Life (2004) (16)
The Effects of Redistricting on Incumbents (2012) (15)
Valence Politics and Equilibrium in Spatial Models (1999) (15)
Interest-group politics under majority rule (1996) (15)
Gatekeeping or Not, Sample Selection in the Roll Call Agenda Matters (1992) (14)
PUBLIC GOODS AND THE LAW OF 1/n (2008) (13)
Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and the Public Spending in the American States (2002) (11)
Corruption and the Growth of Campaign Spending (2002) (11)
THE POLITICAL ORIENTATION OF NEWSPAPER ENDORSEMENTS (2006) (11)
"estimating Party Influence on Congressional Roll Call Voting: Regression Coefficients vs Calssification Success" (2001) (9)
Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on U.S. Newspapers (2007) (8)
Estimating the Distribution of Voter Preferences Using Partially Aggregated Voting Data (2005) (8)
The Arsenal of Democracy: Production and Politics During Wwii (2017) (8)
Reapportionment and Party Realignment in the American States (2004) (7)
Measuring Media Influence on U.S. State Courts (2010) (7)
POLITICAL ADVERTISING IN CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACIES: RADIO ADS, CLIENTELISM, AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO (2014) (7)
Primary Competition and Partisan Polarization in the U.S. Congress (2010) (7)
The Media's Influence on Public Policy Decisions (2008) (7)
“Using Multi-Member Districts to Decompose the Incumbency Advantage” (2009) (7)
Party Platform Choice - Single- Member District and Party-List Systems (1996) (6)
Distributive Politics with Primary Elections (2009) (6)
Primary Elections and the Provision of Public Goods (2018) (6)
Political geography and interest-group power (1989) (5)
Why Is There So Little Money In US Elections (2003) (5)
The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote and the Reshaping of American Politics (2008) (5)
Candidate Positions in Congressional Elections (2001) (5)
Statistical Bias in Newspaper Reporting: The Case of Campaign Finance (2005) (5)
Elections and the Quality of Public Officials: Evidence from U.S. State Courts (2012) (4)
Using Term Limits to Estimate Incumbency Advantages When Incumbents Retire Strategically (2004) (4)
A Simple Explanation for Bias at the 50-50 Threshold in RDD Studies Based on Close Elections (2011) (4)
Money and Office (2000) (4)
The Political Economy of Public Spending: Evidence from the US States (2010) (4)
Primary Elections and Party Polarization (2010) (4)
Coverage and Political Accountability (2008) (4)
ELECTORAL CONTROL AND SELECTION WITH PARTIES AND PRIMARIES (2009) (4)
Party Strength and State Government Spending (2010) (3)
Leadership Power in Congress, 1890-2014: Evidence from PAC Contributions and Newspaper Coverage (2016) (3)
Interest groups & the electoral control of politicians (2005) (3)
Elections and Government Accountability: Evidence from the U.S. State Courts (2012) (3)
Political Advertising in Consolidating Democracies: Locally Dominant Parties and the Equalization of Media Access in Mexico (2014) (3)
Statistical Bias in Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance (2003) (3)
Dyadic Representation in the American North and South: The Case of Prohibition (2020) (2)
Evidence of Virtual Representation: Reapportionment in California (2002) (2)
Making Rallies Great Again: The Effects of Presidential Campaign Rallies on Voter Behavior, 2008-2016 (2020) (2)
L EVELING THE PLAYING FIELD : H OW EQUALIZING ACCESS TO POLITICAL ADVERTISING HELPS LOCALLY NON-DOMINANT PARTIES IN NON-CONSOLIDATED DEMOCRACIES (2015) (2)
The Centrist U.S. Press (2010) (2)
Why did a majority of californians vote to limit their own power (2005) (2)
Intra-Party Disagreement and Inter-Party Polarization (2016) (2)
Preference Heterogeneity of the Judiciary and the Composition of Political Jurisdictions (2014) (1)
Political and market equilibria with income taxes (1985) (1)
Publicizing malfeasance: When media facilitates electoral accountability in Mexico (2015) (1)
What Shapes the Quality and Behavior of Government Offcials? Institutional Variation in Selection and Retention Methods (2021) (1)
Why Roll Calls? A Model of Position Taking in Legislatures (2005) (1)
The Growth of Campaign Advertising in the United States, 1880–1930 (2022) (1)
“Political Geography and Interest Group Power,” Social Choice and Welfare" (1989) (1)
Voting Weights and Formateur Advantages in Coalition Formation: Evidence from Parliamentary Coalitions, 1946 to 2002 (2005) (1)
Comment on “local interests, central leadership, and the passage of TRA86” (1993) (1)
AN INFORMATIONAL RATIONALE FOR POLITICAL PARTIES1 (2001) (1)
Linearity of the Optimal Income Tax: A Generalization (1984) (1)
Preferential Voting and the Selection of Party Leaders : Evidence from Sweden * (2013) (1)
Party Control of State Government and Distribution of Public Finances (2005) (1)
When parties are not teams: party positions in single-member district and proportional representation systems (2011) (0)
I'm news, are you?: newspaper coverage of elected vs. appointed officials (2007) (0)
P OLITICAL ADVERTISING IN CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACIES : D OMINANT PARTIES AND THE EQUALIZATION OF MEDIA ACCESS IN M EXICO (2014) (0)
EQUILIBRIA IN MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, MULTI-PARTY SPATIAL COMPETITION 1 (2007) (0)
Incumbency advantages in state elections (2005) (0)
Primaries and Party Loyalty (2019) (0)
The Direct Primary and Voting Behavior in U.S. General Elections (2018) (0)
Contributors (1987) (0)
The Decline of Competition in Primary Elections (2006) (0)
Patronage and Elections in U.S. States OLLE FOLKE and SHIGEO HIRANO Columbia University (2011) (0)
Candidate positioning data (2005) (0)
Commentary on two papers on economic inequality and local public services (1999) (0)
Did Firms Profit from Soft Money? (2004) (0)
THE PLAYING FIELD : H OW CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING CAN HELP NON-DOMINANT PARTIES ∗ H (2016) (0)
Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance (2005) (0)
in U.S. Elections (2016) (0)
Political payoffs and the electoral advantages of incumbency (1992) (0)
We find little to quarrel with in Gordon Tullock's (19??) comment on our paper (Dougan and Snyder, 1993). Much of his comment serves to remind us (1995) (0)
THE END OF INEQUALITY? (2010) (0)
Campaign Warchests in Congressional Elections (2000) (0)
“Are Rents Fully Dissipated?”, Reprinted (1994) (0)
P OLITICAL ADVERTISING IN CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACIES : R ADIO ADS , CLIENTELISM , AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN M EXICO (2014) (0)
Has Television Increased the Cost of Campaigns (1999) (0)
Politics and Procedure in Environmental Law: Comments (1992) (0)
INTEREST GROUPS AND THE ELECTORAL CONTROL OF POLITICIANS1 (2005) (0)
Legislative effectiveness & legislative life (2004) (0)
Figure 2 : Candidate and Incumbent Ideology by District Type (2003) (0)
17.884J / 14.296J Collective Choice I, Fall 2005 (2005) (0)
The Revealed Demand for Hard vs. Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV Viewership (2021) (0)
Honorary Life Members: Ex Officio (With Vote) Ex Officio (No Vote) (2007) (0)
Voting Cues and the Incumbency Advantage: A Critical Test (2006) (0)
The cost of rent seeking: Reply (1995) (0)

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