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

• In Event: Media, Accountability, and Transparency in Legislative Politics

Brief Overview

We examine the impact of legislative transparency in the U.S. House by comparing the size of final passage coalitions with recorded votes to those that did not receive recorded votes.

Authors

• Michael S. Lynch, University of Georgia

• Anthony Madonna, University of Georgia