Political and Economic Factors Affecting Agricultural PAC Contribution Strategies
分析第103届国会中26个农业政治行动委员会对参议员的捐款策略，发现农业行业倾向于资助来自农业州、任期较短、保守派民主党且面临激烈竞选的参议员，但不同农业子行业（如作物与畜牧）存在差异。
Abstract Public choice describes a marketplace for political favors that could explain strong support for agriculture. While many researchers have studied political markets, few have examined agriculture. This study addresses contributions from twenty‐six PAC aggregates to senators in the 103rd Congress. Using a tobit model, legislative attributes, such as tenure, committee membership, and ideology, were regressed on contributions. Overall, the agricultural industry targeted nonsenior, conservative Democrats from agriculturally dependent states in close election races and who served either on the agriculture committee or the agriculture appropriations committee. However, many differences were found across subsectors within agriculture, such as crops and livestock.