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Replication data for: Constructing Congressional Activity: Uncertainty and the Dynamics of Legislative Attention

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Title Replication data for: Constructing Congressional Activity: Uncertainty and the Dynamics of Legislative Attention
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27765
 
Creator Ryan, Josh M.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Members and parties have electoral incentives to address issues on the congressional agenda to satisfy public demand. When determining which issues to address, majorities seek to minimize their uncertainty about the costs and electoral benefits of legislating by revisiting policy areas previously addressed. This theory is tested using error correction models which demonstrate that policy activity within each chamber is in a long-term equilibrium and that the passage of legislation, even important bills, promotes future policymaking in the same policy area. This relationship is stronger when the majority has less information about the costs of lawmaking|specifically, when it faces a chamber controlled by the opposite party and when it is a new majority.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Congress, congressional agenda, interchamber dynamics
 
Date 2014
 
Type aggregate Congress--chamber-level time series data