Broken Record: How Changes to the Roll Call Generation Process Affect Measures of Polarization

• In Event: Measuring Legislative Outcomes and Behavior

Brief Overview

We document patterns of historical change in the congressional roll call vote generation process. We then use simulations to account for changing practices and to generate an agenda-corrected measure of polarization.

Authors

• Alice Kisaalita, University of Georgia

• Michael S. Lynch, University of Georgia

• Anthony Madonna, University of Georgia