The Myth of Inevitability: Southern Control of Congressional Committees in the Civil Rights Era

• In Event: Historical Perspectives on Congress

Brief Overview

Using an MCMC algorithm, we test the prevailing assumption surrounding the inevitability of southern dominance of House committees in the mid-20th Century.

Authors

• Daniel Blyth Magleby, Binghamton University

• Gisela L Sin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign