Shannon Jenkins
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The Context of Legislating

Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

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Jenkins provides a much-needed examination of how the rules, resources, and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Tracking data from 1,100 legislators, 230 committees and 12,000 bills introduced in ten state lower chambers, she examines how political conditions and institutional rules and resources shape the arc of the legislative process by raising the costs of some types of legislative activity and lowering the costs of others. The analysis reveals that institutional variables shape the legislative process on their own, bu...