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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Model legislation"”.
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Model Legislation as a Measure of Special Interest Influence: The American Legislative Exchange Council and the Koch Network
… policy at the state level. Using a sample of 171 model bills drafted by ALEC, we utilize preliminary natural language processing methods to identify key topics existant in model bills and compare those to a sample of all legislation passed in the state of California between 1989 and 1991. We find …
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
… and patterns of recent state-level censorship legislation. Using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that combines queer theory, social construction theory, policy diffusion theory, and legislative policy making models (Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, Multiple Streams Framework, Moral …
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Essays in Political Economics and Networks
… bills copied from other legislatures or model legislation. This allows me to study the extent to which legislators introduce these bills to appear productive while putting in minimal effort. I use an instrumental variable approach and find that legislators who win elections more …
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What Work? Quasi-Experiments in Cybersecurity Policy Interventions
… evidence for the Insurance Data Security Model Law propagated by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Drawing on this methodology, this model legislation and other data security and privacy regulatory interventions should now be the subject for future research. The first …