...Jesse Crosson; Geoff Lorenz; Alexander Furnas Lawmakers vary considerably in how effectively they advance their priorities through Congress. However, the actual proposal-writing strategies undergirding these differences have remained largely unexplored, due to measurement and methodological...

... K. Lowande 2021 K. Lowande Licensed re-use rights only Presidency unilateral policymaking unilateral action lawmaking The Trump administration started like most contemporary presidencies: with a series of “executive actions” signed in front of cameras and designed to signal...

... are to blame. Here, we revisit this empirical relationship. Rather than relying on traditional measures of legislative productivity, however, we consider whether divided government affects the ability of lawmakers to meet critical deadlines — specifically, the ability of state lawmakers to adopt an on-time...