The Nuclear Option: Weapons of Mass Destruction Under Congressional Party Competition

• In Event: Domestic Politics and International Cooperation

Brief Overview

We identify bills in the U.S. Congress related to nuclear arms using machine learning, and examine it to explore the factors that promote congressional involvement in this supposedly executive-dominated area of policymaking.

Authors

• Geoffrey Miles Lorenz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• Brendan Fee, Graduate Center, CUNY

• Doyeon Park, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• Rupal Mehta, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• Ingrid J. Haas, University of Nebraska, Lincoln