I investigate whether voters judge the performance of their governor on taxes by comparing him to governors from neighboring states. If voters do make these comparisons, it creates "yardstick competition," where governors are competing with each other as they set taxes. Previous research has shown that governors are punished at the ballot box for raising taxes. However, Besley and Case (AER 199...

There is a large literature on economic voting in the United States, which shows that the economy matters in presidential and congressional elections. Puzzlingly, however, the state politics literature has failed to find clear evidence for economic voting in gubernatorial elections. In this study, I use population-based datasets of state and county-level economic conditions from 1969-2016 to ex...

or quotes are paraphrased, losing the colour of the original event. The press itself must take the blame for rather disappointing production: besides many typographical errors, the print is strangely difficult to read. However, Morris Vogel's book is, overall, very useful. He has successfully treated his topic as a social development, where patients and governors, local politicians and ethnic l...

or quotes are paraphrased, losing the colour of the original event. The press itself must take the blame for rather disappointing production: besides many typographical errors, the print is strangely difficult to read. However, Morris Vogel's book is, overall, very useful. He has successfully treated his topic as a social development, where patients and governors, local politicians and ethnic l...

Brown, who is general campaign chairman, said that more than $9 million has already been secured in pre-announcement contributions and commitments. Of that amount, some $6,120,000 represents i n d i vidual gif ts and pledges f rom members of Rice University's Board of ^Governors, through its Governors' Nucleus Fund. The remaining $3 million of the total $9,381,597 campaign nucleus was obtained ...

Dr. D.-P. Song 1, C. Li 2, N. S. Colella 3, Prof. J. J. Watkins 6 Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, 01003, USA E-mail: [email protected] Prof. J.-H. Lee 5 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 160 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, USA Prof. X. Lu 4 School...

The November 2014 midterm election was the first election since key coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were implemented, including the Medicaid expansion and creation of the health insurance exchanges. The pre-election variability in the states' implementation of these provisions coupled with the large number of states selecting their next governor made the election important ...