Bill Text and Agenda Control in the US Congress

Ballard, Andrew

doi:10.1086/714928

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“…Any word, phrase, or document can be represented as a vector of real numbers (Mikolov et al 2013; Pennington, Socher, and Manning 2014) by assuming it is possible to know the meaning of a word by the words that typically surround it (Firth 1957). Embeddings enable a wide array of mathematical approaches that would be impossible with raw text alone or commonly employed topic models (e.g., Ballard 2022). However, neither dictionary methods nor fixed embedding is adaptable to context, as words are assigned a single fixed value (a sentiment score or numeric vector).…”

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Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets

Ballard

DeTamble

Dorsey³

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Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweetsaffective polarization is pervasive in modern us politics, and can be intensified by strategic messaging from members of Congress. But there are gaps in our knowledge of the dynamics of polarizing appeals from elected representatives on social media. We explore the usage of polarizing rhetoric by members of Congress on twitter using the 4.9 million tweets sent by members of Congress from 2009 to 2020, coded for the presence of polarizing rhetoric via a novel and highly accurate application of supervised machine learning methods. Fitting with our expectations, we find that more ideologically extreme members, those from safer districts, and those who are not in the president's party are more likely to send polarizing tweets, and that polarizing tweets garner more engagement, increasing campaign funding for more polarizing members.

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Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets

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Dorsey³

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“…House minority parties shape the issue attentions of the majority party (Hughes 2018) as well as the floor roll-call record (Egar 2016). Majority parties are often unable to control the House floor agenda (Ballard and Curry 2020), and there are virtually no differences between the negative agenda-setting powers exercised by House and Senate majority parties, despite far more favorable rules in the House (Ballard 2021;Gailmard and Jenkins 2007;. Meaningful minority party influence is not a rare occurrence.…”

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Minority Party Capacity in Congress

Ballard

Curry

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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When, and under what circumstances, are congressional minority parties capable of influencing legislative outcomes? We argue that the capacity of the minority party to exert legislative influence is a function of three factors: constraints on the majority party, which create opportunities for the minority party; minority party cohesion on the issue at hand; and sufficient motivation for the minority to engage in legislating rather than electioneering. Drawing on data on every bill considered in the House of Representatives between 1985 and 2006 and case examples of notable lawmaking efforts during the same period, we show that our theory helps predict which bills are considered on the House floor, which bills become law, and the substance of policy-making outcomes. Our findings have important implications for theories of congressional party power and our understanding of minority party influence on Capitol Hill.

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Ontology-Driven Parliamentary Analytics: Analysing Political Debates on COVID-19 Impact in Canada

Azzi

Gagnon

2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Bill Text and Agenda Control in the US Congress

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets

Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets

Minority Party Capacity in Congress

Ontology-Driven Parliamentary Analytics: Analysing Political Debates on COVID-19 Impact in Canada

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