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- Title
Legislative Productivity in the 93d-105th Congresses.
- Authors
COX, GARY W.; TERRY, WILLIAM C.
- Abstract
We exploit a large new dataset in order to revisit the determinants of "legislative success" in Congress. Previous studies have focused on one or (rarely) two Congresses. Ours is the first study based on panel data, allowing us to better measure such causal effects as how a member's productivity increases when they become a committee chair or their party attains a majority. While corroborating several previous findings, we also differ on several important points-e.g., whereas the most sophisticated previous study finds greater seniority and committee leadership posts boosting productivity in neither party, we find them boosting productivity in both.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States. Congress; LEGISLATIVE voting; UNITED States political parties; UNITED States legislators; LEGISLATION drafting; PANEL analysis
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2008, Vol 33, Issue 4, p603
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3162/036298008786403123