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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Legislative success"”.
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Institutional Variation, Balance of Power and Agenda Control: Evidence from the Argentine Subnational Legislatures
This research investigates how patterns of legislative competition (i.e. partisan fragmentation and the majority/plurality party) are likely to affect the effect of rules and practices that govern the legislative process. These different patterns of legislative competition, I argue, will have an …
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Cosponsorship Networks in the U.S. Congress: Measuring the Success of Female Legislators
… levels of collaboration positively influence legislative success and in others they do not, the results often depending on the characteristic of the group itself and the institutional setting within which the group operates. Additionally, prior studies within the domains of social network …
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Legislative commitment in Congress
… by adopting intense, specialized, and consistent legislative agendas, and I identify policy wonks with a novel measure of legislative commitment based on these three components and using MCs’ slates of bill sponsorships from 1989 through 2008. Building on previous work on legislative …
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Legislating Citizenship in the United States: The Impact of State Building on Woman Sufferage Legislation, 1848-1918
… to estimate the effects of state building on legislative outcome. Legislative outcome is measured in three stages: whether or not a bill is introduced in either the House or the Senate during a legislative session, whether or not a bill is voted on in either the House or the Senate during a …