... minorities moderate than the hypothesis that parties in closely contested chambers polarize. © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Polarization Legislative politics Electoral politics Congress US state legislatures Polarization...

... a rhetorical dimension of representation by matching individual responses from three decades of public opinion survey data with the legislative floor speeches from the United States Congress over the same time period. I find marked partisan asymmetries in the degree to which the speeches of elected officials...

..., adaptable AI engineering pipeline that researchers can leverage for their own prompting experiments across various measurement tasks. © 2025 M. Bosley 2025 M. Bosley Licensed re-use rights only Discourse analysis large language models artificial intelligence Congress The ability...

..., and J. Y. Lerner Licensed re-use rights only Congress text analysis LLM complexity legislatures Introduction Measuring the complexity of language used to communicate policy-relevant information is central to answering important questions spanning the realms of law, policy...

... largely stand alone as evidence of widespread strategic roll call voting. I examine whether roll call voting in other time periods, legislatures, and research designs exhibits the same pattern. I find no evidence in recent congresses; in the US House or three state legislatures; or in a higher-powered...

...Anthony Fowler Members of the U.S. Congress have become increasingly extreme and polarized over the past 50 years, but explanations for this phenomenon remain hotly debated. This paper tests whether and to what extent Congressional polarization can be explained by the increasing partisanship...

...Michael Pomirchy Intra-party factions have increasingly wielded influence on key agenda items in the U.S. Congress. To better understand the welfare implications of these groups, this paper presents a formal model in which incumbents choose to join a faction and cast a vote on the majority party’s...

...John H. Aldrich; Gary W. Cox; Mathew D. McCubbins; David W. Rohde We have two goals in this paper. First, we provide a unified account of several prominent institutional theories of the Congress, but especially present a model that is consistent with both the Cox-McCubbins theory of party cartels...

... as Speaker of the 118th Congress in October, 2023. Legislatures legislative organization Congress formal modeling We assume that π is strictly increasing in d for all γ_i, χ_i ∈ R ² and that (2) π ⁡ ( 0 ∣ γ i , χ i...

.... © 2024 C. Fong 2024 C. Fong Licensed re-use rights only Congress political parties behavioral economics The Constitution states that, “The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers,” but it is silent on what authority, if any, that Speaker shall have...

...Pamela Ban I examine the role of committee information about legislation and its link to legislative outcomes. Members of Congress, operating within a fast-paced, partisan environment, rely on cues and information to guide their voting decisions. Theories of legislative organization have placed...

... Separation of powers Congress Bureaucracy Public policy Widespread delegation of policymaking authority to the bureaucracy (Bawn, 1995 , 1997 ; Epstein and O’Halloran, 1999 ; Franchino and Høyland, 2009 ; Huber and Shipan, 2002 Ch. 7; Huber et al., 2001 ; Huber and Shipan, 2002...

... membership traits as a proxy measure to evaluate these claims. Congress institutional development elections electoral reform The U.S. Constitution created a legislative branch comprised of two chambers with starkly different rules for member selection. Member of the House of Representatives were...

... population remains fixed. In particular, we are interested in the effect of House size on polarization — the ideological distance between Democrats and Republicans in Congress. In a series of simulations, we show that, all else constant, increasing the House size would exacerbate already high levels...

... was not reauthorized in 1883, four years after it was created and granted significant quarantine authority. We examine these arguments through an analysis of roll-call voting in Congress. We find that the creation and empowerment of the NBH in 1879 is best seen as an emergency action. Republican members of Congress...

...Christian R. Grose Partisan polarization in Congress is at its highest levels in more than 100 years. Political reformers advocate for changes to electoral institutions in order to reduce legislative ideological extremity, yet political scientists have been surprisingly skeptical that changes...