What does IT Take for Congress to Enact Good Policies? an Analysis of Roll Call Voting in the US Congress

We study the conditions under which members of Congress incorporate policy‐specific considerations in their decisions. To do this, we estimate a model that accounts for the influence of private information about legislation quality on voting patterns in the House and Senate. We find that minority pa...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Economics and politics 2016-03, Vol.28 (1), p.79-104
Hauptverfasser:	Iaryczower, Matias, Katz, Gabriel
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