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Replication data for: Measuring Significant Legislation, 1877 to 1948

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication data for: Measuring Significant Legislation, 1877 to 1948
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2DBNA9
 
Creator Joshua D. Clinton
John S. Lapinski
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
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Replication data and code forthcoming



In this study, we provide a measure of legislative output that can be used to characterize outcomes of the lawmaking process across time. We summarize our efforts to identify the 21,741 public statutes passed between 1877 (45th Congress) and 1948 (80th Congress). In so doing we collect both statute-level descriptive information and the assessments of several scholars and chroniclers who identify enactments of note during this time
period. Using this massive data collection we can characterize and assess congressional lawmaking activity across a period spanning the Populist, Progressive, and New Deal Eras as well as the two world wars
 
Date 2007