Who talks to Congress? An exploration of the informational value of hearings through witnesses’ ideologies and affiliations

• In Event: JSS 8
  In JSS Session: Legislatures at Work

Brief Overview

This paper focuses on congressional hearings and their role in the information-gathering process of the US Congress. It leverages a new dataset on Congressional hearings witnesses (WIT-H dataset: 28,054 hearings, 61,112 witnesses from 1997 to 2018).

Author

• Angele Delevoye, Yale University