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Prior Experience and State Legislative Effectiveness

Prior Experience and State Legislative Effectiveness In this Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) working paper, Associate Professor Eric Hansen of Loyola University Chicago and Professor Sarah Treul of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (and CEL Faculty Affiliate) examine how the prior experiences of lawmakers affect their performance in office. Elected representatives who have professional backgrounds in fields closely related to lawmaking—specifically law, government, or politics—or who held prior office seem to have an advantage in winning elections, but it is unclear that such experience makes them better…

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Gendered Perceptions of Legislative Influence

Gendered Perceptions of Legislative Influence In this Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) working paper, Faculty Affiliate Jaclyn Kaslovsky (Washington University in St. Louis), Tabitha Koch (Rice University), and Michael P. Olson (Washington University in St. Louis) examine whether legislative and electoral accomplishments translate into perceived influence differently for women and men. Women legislators often report that they must work harder than men to achieve the same outcomes and recognition. Existing research supports this argument in their interactions with voters, yet little previous scholarship has examined whether this expectations gap also…

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Meet our Research Affiliate: Connor Phillips

Meet our Research Affiliate: Connor Halloran Phillips The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is excited to announce one of our newest research affiliates, Connor Halloran Phillips. He is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Political Science and Center for Effective Lawmaking at Vanderbilt University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. His research examines interest groups, parties, legislatures, and elections in the US with a focus on how federalism shapes phenomena such as partisan polarization and voter participation. In his…

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Meet our Research Affiliate: Amy Meli

Meet our Research Affiliate: Amy Meli The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is excited to announce one of our newest research affiliates, Amy Meli. She is a postdoctoral research associate at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Her research centers around interest groups and the way they influence the political system. Her research projects include an examination of the way involvement in interest groups influences interest group member political efficacy and affective polarization, the relationship between interest groups and the political parties,…

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Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Arjun Vishwanath

Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Arjun Vishwanath The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is delighted to introduce Arjun Vishwanath as one of our newest faculty affiliates, having recently been one of our postdoctoral research affiliates. He is an assistant professor in the Political Science department at Boston University. His research focuses on representation, public opinion, and legislative politics in American politics.Professor Vishwanath is working on a book manuscript on how American citizens’ values are represented by their members of Congress. His other research explores the role of values and ideology in…

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Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Emily Cottle Ommundsen

Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Emily Cottle Ommundsen The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is excited to announce that Emily Cottle Ommundsen has joined us as one of our newest faculty affiliates, having recently been one of our graduate affiliates. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Mississippi, where her research focuses on American political institutions, particularly congressional representation and institutional capacity. Her research has been published in Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Behavior, and PS: Political Science & Politics.  Professor Ommundsen earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in…

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Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Michael Kistner

Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Michael Kistner The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is pleased to announce Michael Kistner as one of our newest faculty affiliates. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. He studies representation, policymaking, and the influence of money in American legislatures (both in Congress and the states). In Professor Kistner's award-winning book manuscript Paying for the Party: How Fundraising Demands Lead to Less Productive and Representative Legislatures, Kistner explores the causes and consequences of party-driven fundraising demands. His research has been…

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Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Jaclyn Kaslovsky

Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Jaclyn Kaslovsky The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is thrilled to announce one of our newest faculty affiliates, Jaclyn Kaslovsky. Kaslovsky is an Assistant Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis. She specializes in American politics, focusing on Congress, representation, and women in politics. In her current work, Professor Kaslovsky analyzes how legislators choose to allocate their resources, including their time and staff, and the effect of these choices on the legislator-constituent relationship. Professor Kaslovsky's other projects leverage unique time series and congressional speech datasets…

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Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Andrew Ballard

Meet our Faculty Affiliate: Andrew Ballard The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is excited to announce one of our newest faculty affiliates, Andrew Ballard. Professor Ballard serves as an assistant professor of Political Science at Florida State University. He studies American politics with a particular interest in legislative institutions, political parties, and the interplay between legislators and the public. Some of the overarching topics he investigates are the influence of minority parties over legislation, how party goals drive legislative behavior, why some legislators and citizens are more willing to compromise…

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Effective Lawmaking Behind the Scenes
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Effective Lawmaking Behind the Scenes

Effective Lawmaking Behind the Scenes In this Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) working paper, Co-Directors Craig Volden (University of Virginia) and Alan Wiseman (Vanderbilt University), and Faculty Affiliates Mary Kroeger (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Erinn Lauterbach (Villanova University), and Kelsey Shoub (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) demonstrate how behind-the-scenes lawmaking has become much more common in the U.S. Congress in recent years, with numerous bills embedded in must-pass legislation. Building on previous political science research, they offer a methodology to identify all bills that are substantially embedded in all laws in both…

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