Group Bills and Polarized Policymaking: Evidence from Proposal Locations in the C

• In Event: How are State Legislators Behaving? Bill Sponsorship and Role Call Voting in the American States

Brief Overview

We generate an original dataset of bill proposal and status quo locations in the California state legislature (2009-2016) to investigate how group-sponsored bills differ in their ideological content from other more traditional pieces of legislation.

Authors

• Jesse M. Crosson, Princeton University and Trinity University

• Patricia A. Kirkland, Princeton University

• Mary Alice Kroeger, University of Rochester