Party Dynamics in Congressional Negotiations

• In Event: Negotiation and Bargaining in Legislatures

Brief Overview

We develop an original dataset of major policymaking efforts since the 1980s that featured significant two-party negotiations and use these data to test a theory of minority party capacity that we advanced in prior work (Ballard and Curry 2021).

Authors

• Andrew O Ballard, Florida State University

• James M. Curry, University of Utah