When Are Empirical Studies of Legislative Oversight Prone to Oversight?

• In Event: New Research in Congressional Oversight

Brief Overview

Leveraging the advent of the Congressional Oversight Records Database (CORD), we develop a theory of oversight within a setting similar to several classical theories of congressional organization (Krehbiel (1999), Cox and McCubbins (1993, 2005)).

Authors

• Jenny (Seoyeon) Kim, Emory University

• Benjamin Kinnard, Emory University

• John W. Patty, Emory University