Constructing and Repairing Our Bridges: Statistical Considerations When Placing Agents into Legislative Preference Space

K. Esterling
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A statistical test of hypotheses regarding the strategic interaction between legislators and third-party agents, such as lobbyists, bureaucrats, or experts, requires some ``bridging'' method to place each type of actor into preference spaces that are comparable. Current solutions to the bridging problem either attempt to place both legislators and agents into an arbitrary preference space entirely disconnected from the institutional setting, or they attempt to place agents into a legislative roll-call preference space mistakenly as if agents were themselves legislators. I propose a new method that leverages the observed behavioral hypotheses to identify a set of agent-specific bridging parameters that place agents directly into legislative roll-call preference space as agents, rather than counterfactually as legislators. I apply my method to test whether members of Congress condition their questioning of witnesses in committee hearings on preference similarity within the legislator-witness dyad, as a test of lobbying models for strategic information transmission.
建造和修复我们的桥梁:将代理人置于立法偏好空间时的统计考虑
关于立法者和第三方代理人(如游说者、官僚或专家)之间战略互动的假设的统计检验,需要一些“桥梁”方法,将每种类型的行动者置于可比较的偏好空间中。目前解决桥接问题的办法,要么试图将立法者和代理人都置于一个完全与制度环境脱节的任意偏好空间中,要么试图将代理人错误地置于立法点名偏好空间中,仿佛代理人本身就是立法者。我提出了一种新的方法,利用观察到的行为假设来确定一组特定于代理的桥接参数,这些参数将代理作为代理直接置于立法点名偏好空间中,而不是反事实地作为立法者。我运用我的方法来检验国会议员在委员会听证会上对证人的提问是否以立法者-证人二元组中的偏好相似性为条件,作为对战略信息传递的游说模型的检验。
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