New Research Shows Evidence of “Vote-trading” in Congress

Economists have long theorized that self interested politicians would be willing to trade votes with other politicians to improve their own position, and a new research paper by Drs. Marco Battaglini, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza, and Eleonora Patacchini with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) seems to suggest there may be some vote-trading going on in Congress with some interesting benefits for participants.