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What Do Bureaucrats Want: Estimating Regulator Preferences at the FCC

Keith S. Brown
CNA Corporation

Adam Candeub
Michigan State University College of Law

August 20, 2007

MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-01

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We use a unique and comprehensive data set spanning 32,515 individual Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioners' votes over 27 years to estimate FCC commissioner preferences. Employing Multinomial Logit and Multinomial Probit choice models, we estimate FCC commissioners' preferences over different vote choices. According to multinomial logit results, idiosyncratic commissioner preferences are far important than party affiliation in determining commissioner votes. Multinomial probit results indicate that the vote choices concur and dissent are close substitutes of each other.

Keywords: Federal Communications Commission, independent agency, communications law, administrative law, empirical legal studies

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Date posted: August 25, 2007 ; Last revised: August 25, 2007

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Brown, Keith S. and Candeub, Adam , What Do Bureaucrats Want: Estimating Regulator Preferences at the FCC (August 20, 2007). MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-01. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1008313

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Adam Candeub (Contact Author) Michigan State University College of Law ( email ) 368 Law College Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1300 United States
Keith S. Brown CNA Corporation ( email ) Washington, DC United States

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Date posted: August 25, 2007 ; Last revised: August 25, 2007

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