Governing in the Shadows: Evaluating the Impact of Recorded Voting in the Committee of the Whole and Liberal Policy Outcomes

• In Event: Credit Claiming and Blame Avoidance in Legislative Politics

Brief Overview

This paper examines the impact of legislative transparency by comparing the size of final passage coalitions with recorded votes to those that did not receive recorded votes.

Authors

• Spencer Hardin, University of Georgia

• Michael S. Lynch, University of Georgia

• Anthony Madonna, University of Georgia