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The discussion and votes in the Senate of the 79th Congress on specific proposals for the National Science Foundation Bill are analyzed and discussed. AN ANALYSIS OF ACTION ON SCIENCE LEGIS- LATION ...
proposals to impose sanctions on foreign governments tend to be popular among members of Congress because they provide a vehicle to demonstrate action on an issue of concern, without legislators running much ...
Abstract Effective science and technology (S&T) assessment capabilities providing advice for Congress must be both credible and suitable to congressional needs. To be credible, from the perspective ...
(Paterson 1991, 17). This prompted Vandenberg to believe his actions would not be vain and that he could convince Congress to enact Truman’s legislative priorities. Vandenberg and the Personal Level ...
of legislative action in profound ways (McKelvey 1976; Romer and Rosenthal 1978). Yet, one of the neglected lessons of McKelvey’s (1976) seminal work on agenda power is that an agenda setter’s power resides in his ...
, 27]). Second, legislative action is unlikely to take place on the same day (or even week) as a particular shooting, which puts emphasis on the importance of the aggregation window in the analysis . We ...
model for the spatial study of congresses assumes that legislators and parties are relatively positioned in a main dimension when voting on bills. The estimation of ideal points to analyze legislative ...
of partisanship on congressional decision-making on rogue states, we analyze the sponsorship data as well. Our analysis of all rogue states bills proposed in Congress shows that, while Republicans are more likely ...
(2007); Elizabeth Garrett & Adrian Vermeule, Institutional Design of a Thayerian Congress , 50 Duke L. J. 1277 (2001); Simon Evans, Improving Human Rights Analysis in the Legislative and Policy Processes ...
fertile ground for comparative legislative scholars—including scholars of the U.S. Congress —to develop and test new theories of legislative procedure. In this analytical essay, we advance a relatively ...
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