Michael J Barber
Biographic Data
| ID | 163829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Barber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Barber |
| SIGNATURE | BARBER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ideologically Sophisticated Donors: Which Candidates Do Individual Contributors Finance
Individuals are the single largest source of campaign contributions, yet we know little about their motivations. For instance, the existing literature questions whether individual contributors sophisticatedly differentiate among candidates according to policy positions, particularly among same‐party candidates. We analyze this issue by combining data from a new survey of over 2,800 in‐ and out‐of‐state donors associated with the 2012 Senate elect…
Ideological Donors, Contribution Limits, and the Polarization of American Legislatures
This article demonstrates that limits on campaign contributions—which alter a candidate's ability to raise money from certain types of donors—affect the ideologies of legislators in office. Using an original data set of campaign contribution limits in some US states over the last 20 years, I exploit variation across and within states over time to show that higher individual contributions lead to the selection of more polarized legislators, while …
Representing the Preferences of Donors, Partisans, and Voters in the US Senate
Who do legislators best represent? This paper addresses this question by investigating the degree of ideological congruence between senators and constituents on a unified scale. Specifically, I measure congruence between legislators and four constituent subsets—donors, co-partisans, supporters, and registered voters. To estimate the preferences of these groups, I use a large survey of voters and an original survey of campaign contributors that sa…
Causes and Consequences of Polarization
Rarely these days does a news cycle pass without new stories of political dysfunction in Washington, D.C. Reports of stalemates, fiscal cliffs, and failed grand bargains have begun to erode the public confidence in the ability of our representative institutions to govern effectively. In May 2013, only one American in six approved of the way Congress has handled its job. Sadly, that level of support was a major improvement from the previous summer…
Online Polls and Registration-Based Sampling: A New Method for Pre-Election Polling
This article outlines a new method for surveys to study elections and voter attitudes. Pre-election surveys often suffer from an inability to identify and survey the likely electorate for the upcoming election. We propose a new and inexpensive method to conduct representative surveys of the electorate. We demonstrate the performance of our method in producing a representative sample of the future electorate that can be used to study campaign dyna…
Is the European R&D Network Homogeneous? Distinguishing Relevant Network Communities Using Graph Theoretic and Spatial Interaction Modelling Approaches
Barber M. J. and Scherngell T. Is the European R&D network homogeneous? Distinguishing relevant network communities using graph theoretic and spatial interaction modelling approaches, Regional Studies. This paper characterizes the geography of communities in the European research and development (R&D) network using data on R&D projects funded by the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme. Communities are sub-networks whose members are more ti…
Investigating an online social network using spatial interaction models
Spatial interaction modelling of cross‐region R&D collaborations: Empirical evidence from the 5th EU framework programme
Ideologically Sophisticated Donors: Which Candidates Do Individual Contributors Finance
Individuals are the single largest source of campaign contributions, yet we know little about their motivations. For instance, the existing literature questions whether individual contributors sophisticatedly differentiate among candidates according to policy positions, particularly among same‐party candidates. We analyze this issue by combining data from a new survey of over 2,800 in‐ and out‐of‐state donors associated with the 2012 Senate elect…
Ideological Donors, Contribution Limits, and the Polarization of American Legislatures
This article demonstrates that limits on campaign contributions—which alter a candidate's ability to raise money from certain types of donors—affect the ideologies of legislators in office. Using an original data set of campaign contribution limits in some US states over the last 20 years, I exploit variation across and within states over time to show that higher individual contributions lead to the selection of more polarized legislators, while …
Representing the Preferences of Donors, Partisans, and Voters in the US Senate
Who do legislators best represent? This paper addresses this question by investigating the degree of ideological congruence between senators and constituents on a unified scale. Specifically, I measure congruence between legislators and four constituent subsets—donors, co-partisans, supporters, and registered voters. To estimate the preferences of these groups, I use a large survey of voters and an original survey of campaign contributors that sa…
Spatial interaction modelling of cross‐region R&D collaborations: Empirical evidence from the 5th EU framework programme
Online Polls and Registration-Based Sampling: A New Method for Pre-Election Polling
This article outlines a new method for surveys to study elections and voter attitudes. Pre-election surveys often suffer from an inability to identify and survey the likely electorate for the upcoming election. We propose a new and inexpensive method to conduct representative surveys of the electorate. We demonstrate the performance of our method in producing a representative sample of the future electorate that can be used to study campaign dyna…
Is the European R&D Network Homogeneous? Distinguishing Relevant Network Communities Using Graph Theoretic and Spatial Interaction Modelling Approaches
Barber M. J. and Scherngell T. Is the European R&D network homogeneous? Distinguishing relevant network communities using graph theoretic and spatial interaction modelling approaches, Regional Studies. This paper characterizes the geography of communities in the European research and development (R&D) network using data on R&D projects funded by the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme. Communities are sub-networks whose members are more ti…
Spatial interaction modelling of cross‐region R&D collaborations: Empirical evidence from the 5th EU framework programme
Investigating an online social network using spatial interaction models
Is the European R&D Network Homogeneous? Distinguishing Relevant Network Communities Using Graph Theoretic and Spatial Interaction Modelling Approaches
Barber M. J. and Scherngell T. Is the European R&D network homogeneous? Distinguishing relevant network communities using graph theoretic and spatial interaction modelling approaches, Regional Studies. This paper characterizes the geography of communities in the European research and development (R&D) network using data on R&D projects funded by the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme. Communities are sub-networks whose members are more ti…
Online Polls and Registration-Based Sampling: A New Method for Pre-Election Polling
This article outlines a new method for surveys to study elections and voter attitudes. Pre-election surveys often suffer from an inability to identify and survey the likely electorate for the upcoming election. We propose a new and inexpensive method to conduct representative surveys of the electorate. We demonstrate the performance of our method in producing a representative sample of the future electorate that can be used to study campaign dyna…
Causes and Consequences of Polarization
Rarely these days does a news cycle pass without new stories of political dysfunction in Washington, D.C. Reports of stalemates, fiscal cliffs, and failed grand bargains have begun to erode the public confidence in the ability of our representative institutions to govern effectively. In May 2013, only one American in six approved of the way Congress has handled its job. Sadly, that level of support was a major improvement from the previous summer…
Ideological Donors, Contribution Limits, and the Polarization of American Legislatures
This article demonstrates that limits on campaign contributions—which alter a candidate's ability to raise money from certain types of donors—affect the ideologies of legislators in office. Using an original data set of campaign contribution limits in some US states over the last 20 years, I exploit variation across and within states over time to show that higher individual contributions lead to the selection of more polarized legislators, while …
Representing the Preferences of Donors, Partisans, and Voters in the US Senate
Who do legislators best represent? This paper addresses this question by investigating the degree of ideological congruence between senators and constituents on a unified scale. Specifically, I measure congruence between legislators and four constituent subsets—donors, co-partisans, supporters, and registered voters. To estimate the preferences of these groups, I use a large survey of voters and an original survey of campaign contributors that sa…
Ideologically Sophisticated Donors: Which Candidates Do Individual Contributors Finance
Individuals are the single largest source of campaign contributions, yet we know little about their motivations. For instance, the existing literature questions whether individual contributors sophisticatedly differentiate among candidates according to policy positions, particularly among same‐party candidates. We analyze this issue by combining data from a new survey of over 2,800 in‐ and out‐of‐state donors associated with the 2012 Senate elect…
Computer Science (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (3 works) · Complex Network Analysis Techniques (2 works)