Date of Award
4-2011
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Patrick Donnay
Abstract
Since 1998 the State of Minnesota has funded the building of the Xcel Energy Center, Target Field, and TCF Bank Stadium. The focus of this research is to locate voting trends within the Minnesota House of Representatives towards these venues. I recorded the votes of each member on the legislation approving these venues from the Minnesota Journal of the House and then constructed data sets for all three buildings. From this data, trends emerge potentially linking the voting tendencies of members based on party, gender, and geographical location of their district. Initial analysis supports a fairly strong relationship between district location and member voting.
Recommended Citation
Hitchcock, Dave, "The Politics of Subsidizing Sports: Legislative Voting for Three Minnesota Sports Venues" (2011). Political Science Theses and Capstones. 113.
https://pines.bemidjistate.edu/capstone-polisci/113
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