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

• In Event: Polarization and Partisanship

Brief Overview

We examine the introduction of recorded voting in the Committee of the Whole. Using a new dataset of floor amendments subject to both unrecorded and recorded votes, we assess the impact of this procedural change.

Authors

• Michael S. Lynch, University of Georgia

• Anthony Madonna, University of Georgia

• Megan Manning Wall, University of Georgia