This series focuses on how the will of the people and the public interest are promoted,
encouraged, or thwarted. It aims to question not only the direction American politics will take …

We studied an underutilized source of data on legislative effectiveness and exploited its
panel structure to uncover several interesting patterns. We found that effectiveness rises …

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One of the most important changes in the history of codecision has been the steep increase
in early agreements since 1999. Early agreements have enhanced the efficiency of …

For more than half a century, scholars have been studying legislative effectiveness using a
single metric—whether the bills a member sponsors progress through the legislative …

In this article, we explore the degree to which African American state legislators have been
able to translate election to office into substantive representation. We are particularly …

This is the first systematic study to explore the determinants of gubernatorial effectiveness
from a contemporary, comparative state perspective. Factor analysis is employed to devise …

State-level research affords scholars a unique opportunity to study legislative behavior
because state legislators are accessible in ways that members of congress are not. State …

We argue that congressional scholarship would benefit from an aggressive agenda to
incorporate legislative effectiveness more fully into theoretical and empirical examinations of …

The study of legislative influence has suffered from serious conceptual and methodological
problems, and as a result important theoretical claims on the subject have proven difficult to …