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Replication data for: Tracing the Flow of Policy Ideas in Legislatures: A Text Reuse Approach

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Title Replication data for: Tracing the Flow of Policy Ideas in Legislatures: A Text Reuse Approach
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27584
 
Creator John Wilkerson
David Smith
Nicholas Stramp
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This paper proposes a new approach to investigating the substance of lawmaking. Only a very small proportion of bills become law in the U.S. Congress. However, the bills that do become law often serve as vehicles for language originating in other bills. We investigate text reuse methods as a means for tracing the progress of policy ideas in legislation. We then show how a focus on policy ideas leads to new insights into the lawmaking process. Although our focus is on relating content found within bills, the same methods can be used to study policy substance across many research domains.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Congress
Legislative history
 
Contributor John Wilkerson
 
Type aggregate data