caa a22 4500 388081600 CHVBK 20180307125218.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585397 doi S0003055400217346 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585397 How Much Is Majority Status in the U.S. Congress Worth? [Elektronische Daten] A key premise of partisan theories of congressional organization is that majority status confers substantial procedural advantages. In this article, we take advantage of changes in party control of the House and Senate, such as that following the Republicans' historic victory in the midterm elections of 1994, to assess the value of majority status in terms of contributions from access-seeking political action committees (PACs). We estimate that majority status in the House was worth about $36,000 per member in receipts from corporate and trade PACs circa 1994—even controlling for the usual factors cited in the literature as affecting members' ability to raise money (such as committee assignments and voting record). The value of majority status in the Senate is even larger in absolute terms, although smaller in proportion to the total amount of money raised. Our results show that majority status is a valuable asset, one worth considerable collective effort to attain. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Cox Gary W. University of California, San Diego Magar Eric University of California, San Diego American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 299-309 0003-0554 93:2<299 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585397 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585397 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cox Gary W. University of California, San Diego NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Magar Eric University of California, San Diego NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 299-309 0003-0554 93:2<299 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge