The Politics of Budgetary Failure: Explaining and Forecasting U.S. Congressional Continuing Resolutions with Machine Learning

• In Event: Partisanship, Polarization, and Policy

Brief Overview

Why does Congress repeatedly fail to pass full budgets? This study applies machine learning to identify the political and institutional drivers of modern budgetary gridlock and forecast continuing resolutions.

Author

• Kasey Huiyan Yin, University of Texas at Dallas