The Polarizing Effect of the Stimulus: Partisanship and Voter Responsiveness to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
نویسندگان
چکیده
We examine the effect of a sudden influx of government spending, the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), on support for the President’s party. Using a difference-indifferences design, we find that stimulus spending had a modest positive effect on Democratic vote share, but only in counties that were already Democratic-leaning. In Republican counties, by contrast, government spending had a small, but significant negative effect on Democratic vote share. That is to say, ARRA polarized already partisan places. These results have important implications for the study of voter responsiveness to government spending and the measurement of the political effects of policy visibility.
منابع مشابه
Stimulus bill promises a new era in digital health care: but american recovery and reinvestment act gives pharmacies short shrift.
and resources and as a gateway to better health outcomes more broadly, not just as a way to reduce prescription errors. President Obama provided the most recent rationale for EHRs when he linked them to job creation, mostly from sales of e-health software and hardware. The President’s support of EHRs catapulted previously landlocked congressional legislation onto the deck of the fast-moving sti...
متن کاملFiscal Spending Jobs Multipliers: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
This paper estimates the “jobs multiplier” of fiscal spending using the state-level allocations of federal stimulus funds from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Specifically, I estimate the relationship between state-level federal ARRA spending and the change in states’ employment outcomes from the time the Act was passed (February 2009) to some later month (through June 2...
متن کاملDid the Stimulus Stimulate? Effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
We use state and county level variation to examine the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on employment. A cross state analysis suggests that one additional job was created by each $107,000 in stimulus spending. Time series analysis at the state level suggests a smaller response with a per job cost of about $400,000. These results imply Keynesian multipliers between 0.5 and 1....
متن کاملThe effect of hypernatraemia on ketamine anaesthesia in male rats
We studied the effects of a single ketamine injection in an experimental model of chronic hypernatraemia in rats. Three groups, each of 20 male Wistar rats were chosen for the experiment; the control group was given water and the test groups were given 1% (group 1) and 2% (group 2) NaCl solutions for two weeks. All groups were fed with the same diet, containing about 0.5% salt. Other living con...
متن کامل