Incentives, Punishments, and Oversight: How Women Turn Passion into Policy

• In Event: Electoral Incentives and Legislative Behavior

Brief Overview

This paper addresses a new way of analyzing the content of legislation, applies it to legislation written by women in the U.S. House of Representatives, and contributes to our understanding of bill construction in the U.S.

Author

• Erinn Kay Lauterbach, University of California-Riverside