Divided We Legislate: How Elite Partisan Polarization Shapes Legislative Design

• In Event: Parties and Polarization in the Contemporary U.S.

Brief Overview

We examine how elite partisan polarization shapes legislative design in terms of the versatility and precision of legal texts. In the US Congress, higher polarization produces narrower, vaguer laws; lower polarization gives broader, clearer ones.

Authors

• Mike Cowburn, Zeppelin University

• Steffen Hurka, Zeppelin University

• Constantin Kaplaner, Zeppelin University

• Stefanie Rueß, Zeppelin University