Browsing by Subject "Congress"
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Cross-National Lesson-Drawing: International Influences on Domestic Policymaking in the United States
(2017-12)In an increasingly internationalized policy environment, determinants of U.S. domestic policy may include factors that are global in reach and external to the macro-level domestic political setting. The changing context ... -
Earmarks and Subcommittee Government in the U.S. Congress
(American Politics Research, 2015-03-31)In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has focused on earmarks, the quintessential example of pork barrel politics. We assess the degree to which existing theories can explain the distribution of earmarks in the ... -
Empty Chairs in an Empty Chamber: Deconstructing the Myth of Debate in the U.S. Senate
(2022)Debate in the U.S. Senate has been revered and mythologized throughout much of our history. The historical impression of Senate debate is that it is robust, civil, and well informed. At the same time, the terms deliberation ... -
Gender, Partisanship, and Women's Issues in Congressional Communication
(2018)Despite much scholarly attention to women’s issues and women’s representation in recent decades, the definition of a women’s issue is not settled either in political science or public opinion. In this project, I present a ... -
The Role of State Political Parties in Congressional Elections
(2020)Using an original dataset of state party bylaws, this dissertation examines the institutional role of state political parties in congressional primaries. Specifically, I consider how representative state political parties ... -
We (Not Them) The People: Populist Rhetoric in the Contemporary U.S. Congress
(2023-12)This dissertation provides evidence that populist rhetoric shapes Congress, parties and individual politicians in rich and contextual ways. I collected a dataset of over 2 million tweets (2012-2020: Chapter 2) and over ...