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The rise of partisanship and super-cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Published 2015-01-01“…We quantify the level of cooperation, or lack thereof, between Democrat and Republican Party members in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949-2012. We define a network of over 5 million pairs of representatives, and compare the mutual agreement rates on legislative decisions between two distinct types of pairs: those from the same party and those formed of members from different parties. …”
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The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives
Published 2015“…We quantify the level of cooperation, or lack thereof, between Democrat and Republican Party members in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949–2012. We define a network of over 5 million pairs of representatives, and compare the mutual agreement rates on legislative decisions between two distinct types of pairs: those from the same party and those formed of members from different parties. …”
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A network analysis of committees in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Published 2005“…Here, we investigate the U.S. House of Representatives network of committees and subcommittees, with committees connected according to "interlocks," or common membership. …”
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Proxy voting in the U.S. House of Representatives: Legislative shirking in new clothing?
Published 2023-03-01“…Thus, it appears that the proxy voting mechanism introduced in 2020 via a U.S. House resolution represents a new configuration of traditional legislative shirking or vote skipping.…”
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The Deinstitutionalization (?) of the House of Representatives: Reflections on Nelson Polsby's “The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives” at Fifty
Published 2021“…This article revisits Nelson Polsby's classic article The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives fifty years after its publication, to examine whether the empirical trends that Polsby identified have continued. …”
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The Deinstitutionalization (?) of the House of Representatives: Reflections on Nelson Polsby's “The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives” at Fifty
Published 2022“…This article revisits Nelson Polsby's classic article The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives fifty years after its publication, to examine whether the empirical trends that Polsby identified have continued. …”
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Maine’s Congressional Delegation Reflections on Our Shared Ocean
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Solving the debt crisis: Debt relief and adjustment
Published 2024-01-01“…ABSTRACT On January 5, 1989, Professor Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, full professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas and editor of this Journal, presented the following testimony before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives.…”
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Critique of U.S. House Bill 2454 on Climate Change
Published 2010-02-01“…The U.S. House of Representatives, in June 2009, approved a bill to create a cap and trade system and a system of regulations and subsidies to address the problems of climate change. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Cultural Heritage Institution Social Media Strategy
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Reimagining solidarity with strawberry farmworkers in the United States
Published 2021-05-01“…H.R. 1603, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021—providing a path to citizenship for undocumented agricultural workers—had just passed the U.S. House of Representatives (for the second time). Supported by agricultural trade organizations and a small handful of farm labor groups as a compromise measure (Farmworker Justice, 2021), the bill is also opposed by farmworker advocacy groups such as the Food Chain Workers Alliance for its failure to provide stronger protections (Food Chain Workers Alliance, n.d.). . . .…”
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How (Not) to Evaluate U.S. Decline and the Emerging Great Power Rivalry
Published 2021-10-01“…Wohlforth graduated with a degree in international relations from Beloit College, worked as a legislative aid in the U.S. House of Representatives, and did his graduate work at Yale University, earning an M.A. in international relations and PhD in Political Science. …”
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Noblesse oblige? Social status and economic inequality maintenance among politicians.
Published 2014-01-01“…Given that high status individuals tend to conceive of the current structure of society as fair and just, we expected that high status members of the U.S. House of Representatives would be more likely to support economic inequality in their legislative behavior than would their low status counterparts. …”
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Barack Obama, John Lewis, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Struggle
Published 2012-01-01“…In 1986 he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Atlanta’s Fifth Congressional District, a seat he continues to hold today.…”
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More tweets, more votes: social media as a quantitative indicator of political behavior.
Published 2013-01-01“…To address this issue, we show that there is a statistically significant association between tweets that mention a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives and his or her subsequent electoral performance. …”
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Assessing the Effects of Personal Characteristics and Context on U.S. House Speakers’ Leadership Styles, 1789-2006
Published 2016-04-01“…Focusing specifically on the speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives from the first to the 110th Congress, we construct measures of each speaker’s commitment to comity and leadership assertiveness. …”
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