Do Rules Affect Representation?

• In Event: Representation and the U.S. Congress

Abstract

Political scientists have a much better understanding of when restrictive rules are used than the effect those rules have on the outcome of legislation. We have virtually no systematic evidence on whether or not the use of rules changes the representativeness of a piece of legislation, or the constituency who is being represented. I offer this evidence, using a new dataset of restrictive rules as well as an updated measure of the liberalness of legislation.

Author

• Soren Jordan, Auburn University