Estimating Proposal and Status Quo Locations for Legislation using Cosponsorships, Roll-Call Votes, and Interest Group Bill Positions

• In Event: Advances in Measurement

Brief Overview

In this paper, we join data on interest-group position-taking on legislative proposals with cosponsorship and roll-call data to generate a new dataset of bill proposal and associated status quo locations in the U.S. Congress.

Authors

• Jesse M. Crosson, Princeton University and Trinity University

• Geoffrey Lorenz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Alexander C. Furnas, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor