The Evolution of Congressional Collaboration

• In Event: Collaboration in Legislatures

Brief Overview

We explore the changing determinants of legislative collaboration between members of Congress from 1870 to 1970. We develop a new measure of collaboration in this period by estimating how often pairs of members introduce (nearly) identical bills.

Authors

• Fang-Yi Chiou, Academia Sinica

• Max Harrison Goplerud, University of Texas at Austin