... rights only Polarization Legislative politics Electoral politics Congress US state legislatures Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives has been steadily increasing since approximately 1970, but explanations for this phenomenon are hotly debated (McCarty, 2019). In her...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... resources until the leader has proven their worth. Of course, this limits the leader’s ability to provide collective goods early in their tenure, so the party only writes the rules in this way if the political context makes electing a talented leader paramount. Congress political parties...

... as Speaker of the 118th Congress in October, 2023. © 2024 B. Kinnard and J. W. Patty 2024 B. Kinnard and J. W. Patty Licensed re-use rights only Legislatures legislative organization Congress formal modeling Legislative Leviathan ¹ is a cornerstone of our theoretical...

... 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...

... and Hibbing (1997) find an increase in pre-Congress service after the move to direct election, the bulk of the increase does not come until several congresses after the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment. MacKenzie (2014) finds more consistent differences between indirect and direct elections...

... of institutional design, the number of districts used to generate a representative assembly. Following McCarty et al. we estimate legislators’ ideological position by regressing their Congress-by-Congress first dimension DW-NOMINATE score on the the proportion of the two-party vote they received...

... 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...