The Institutional Foundations of Legislative Expertise

• In Event: Expertise and Effectiveness in Legislatures

Brief Overview

We provide a theoretical argument, with empirical tests, about how institutions increasing the de jure and de facto capacity of legislatures to shape policy incentivize the accumulation of policy expertise in individual representatives.

Authors

• Despina Alexiadou, University of Strathclyde

• David Fortunato, University of California-San Diego