Committee Comity and Legislative Effectiveness

• In Event: Legislative Connections and Networks

Brief Overview

Using a novel dataset of congressional travel and a new measure of committee effectiveness, we uncover how the relationships formed between committee chairs and ranking members outside the pressures of DC affect their committee’s productivity.

Authors

• Emily Cottle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• James M. Curry, University of Utah

• Jason M. Roberts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill