#legislative effectiveness

Using @thelawmakers data, new post: Legislative Effectiveness, Part II: The South #rstats #polisci #congress

This is a second post about legislative effectiveness. The first post is here.

After looking at the difference in legislative effectiveness between the majority and minority parties using new research from the book The Lawmakers, this is a more in-depth analysis of their data for the region of the country that I live in and call home: the South. (The researchers themselves examine the role of…

{new blog} Legislative Effectiveness, Part I: Pelosi vs. Boehner #rstats #polisci (cc: @TheLawmakers @monkeycageblog)

Two political science professors, Craig Volden and Alan Wiseman, have come up with a way to measure the effectiveness of individual House representatives in their new book. They’ve created a “legislative effectiveness score” (LES) that compares each individual member’s legislative productivity during one two-year session relative to other members of that Congressional session. (Each two-year term…