Unorthodox Lawmaking and Legislator Productivity: The LawProM Bill Text Reuse Measure

• In Event: Analyzing Legislative Text and Speech

Brief Overview

We build on Wilkerson et al. (2015)’s bill text reuse method to create a measure of unorthodox legislative productivity and find that significant amounts of lawmaking happen through these channels vis-a-vis traditional bill introduction and passage.

Authors

• Jessica Robinson Preece, Brigham Young University-Provo

• Mandi Eatough, University of Michigan

• Michael J. Barber, Brigham Young University-Provo