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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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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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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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Evaluating voters' appearance-based strategies in congressional elections
Published 2017“…</p> <p>Utilizing survey data of voters and data from the U.S. House of Representatives, this project combines theories from electoral studies, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary leadership research to investigate the degree to which candidate appearance influences vote-choice. …”
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Book Review: "Across the Lines of Conflict: Facilitating Cooperation to Build Peace"
Published 2016“…<p>Howard Wolpe, to whom this book is dedicated, was an MIT-trained political scientist specializing in Ibo politics in Nigeria who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1979. He served as chair of the Africa Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee and subsequently as U.S. …”
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Anti-Trafficking in the Time of FOSTA/SESTA: Networked Moral Gentrification and Sexual Humanitarian Creep
Published 2021-02-01“…The 2018 passage of the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the corresponding Senate bill, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), is a case study in how efforts to curb sexual exploitation online actually heighten vulnerabilities for the people they purport to protect. …”
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Sharper p-Values for Stratified Election Audits
Published 2019“…We give analogous results for the 2008 U.S. House of Representatives contests in California. Keywords: post-election audits; knapsack problem…”
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Human health risk assessment of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury ingestion from baby foods
Published 2022-01-01“…Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives reported on the presence of heavy metals in raw ingredients used in baby foods and in finished baby food products themselves. …”
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