Legislative Effectiveness in the American States

• In Event: Advances in Measurement

Brief Overview

We introduce legislative effectiveness scores for all 99 state legislatures from the early-1990s onward and we use them to explore the determinants of legislative effectiveness across states and over time.

Authors

• Peter Bucchianeri, Vanderbilt University

• Craig Volden, University of Virginia-Main Campus

• Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University