Issues and Institutions: "Winnowing" in the U.S. Congress

Krutz, Glen

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“…Sponsorship carries meaningful costs and benefits (Schiller 1995;Weissert 1991). The cosponsorship of legislation can serve as cues to fellow legislators regarding the importance and content of legislation (Kessler and Krehbiel 1996;Krutz 2005), provides information shortcuts to legislators who are simultaneously considering a plethora of issues (Kingdon 1989), and can contribute to legislative success and perceived effectiveness (Frantzich 1979;Krutz 2005;Weissert 1991).…”

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“…In the real world of legislative politics, agenda setting is not an individualistic but a collaborative process. As Krutz (2005) notes, the likelihood that a measure receives serious attention-reflected in the number of legislators that endorse the measure through cosponsorship-is enhanced by legislative efforts to recruit supporters. The importance of gaining support for a legislative agenda becomes fairly evident when talking with legislators, one on one, about how they engage in sponsoring and cosponsoring legislation.…”

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Networks in the Legislative Arena: How Group Dynamics Affect Cosponsorship

Bratton

Rouse

2011

Legislative Studies Qtrly

112

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In this study, we explore the determinants of cosponsorship activity within state legislatures. Utilizing a social dynamic framework, we develop and test a model of the interplay of the activities of sponsorship and cosponsorship that includes both individual‐level and social network characteristics as determinants of agenda‐setting behavior; the latter demonstrating how collaboration and mutual interests shape the agenda‐setting process. We find several consistent factors that influence the frequency of cosponsorship activity: (1) ideological distance, (2) proximity of legislators' districts, (3) homophily (similar characteristics such as race, gender, and ethnicity), and (4) transitivity (the idea that friends of my friends are also my friends).

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Networks in the Legislative Arena: How Group Dynamics Affect Cosponsorship

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Rouse

2011

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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“…The percentage of bills on prescription drug coverage which passed the committees was much lower than the 15 per cent average (Krutz 2005). The failure to add prescription drug coverage was not a result of lack of policy-makers' attention.…”

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Policy drift and its reversal: The case of prescription drug coverage in the United States

Shpaizman

2017

Public Administration

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Policy drift occurs when actors block attempts to adjust policies to changing realities, thereby changing policy impact. We know much about the conditions for policy drifting, but lack theorization of the conditions for reversing the drift by updating the policy. This article examines when and how actors favouring drift decide to reverse it. These actors have different characteristics from those favouring policy update. Based on the case of prescription drug coverage in the US, the article argues that actors promote drift reversal when maintaining the current drift becomes politically risky. Even then, they will act only when able to limit the scope of the reversal. In addition, in order to implement the policy update, actors will use blame avoidance strategies to gain the support of their constituency and soften opposition.

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“…The plethora of literature concerned with issue movement from the systemic to the institutional agenda has come at the cost of uncovering internal institutional agenda change. Winnowing theory (Krutz, 2005) fills this void by consolidating variables in the legislative politics literature, asking why some bills receive attention and pass through the committee while others do not. While insinuating that individual activity and institutional structure affect the lawmaking process, winnowing theory has failed to account for fragmented institutional agenda settings (Krutz, 2005, p. 323).…”

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Winnowing in Environmental Policy: Jurisdictional Challenges and Opportunities

Krutz

Jorgensen

2008

Review of Policy Research

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While scholars developed an understanding of the processes moving issues from the systemic to the institutional agenda, we know little about the inner workings of the institutional agenda. Winnowing theory addresses this gap by examining the leadership, bill sponsor, and contextual factors helping bills move through the institutional agenda. By expanding winnowing theory to incorporate a fragmented policy domain, the environment, we find that multiple referral status actually helps a bill's chances of receiving attention and passing through the committee.

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Issues and Institutions: "Winnowing" in the U.S. Congress

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Networks in the Legislative Arena: How Group Dynamics Affect Cosponsorship

Networks in the Legislative Arena: How Group Dynamics Affect Cosponsorship

Policy drift and its reversal: The case of prescription drug coverage in the United States

Winnowing in Environmental Policy: Jurisdictional Challenges and Opportunities

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