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Committee Parallelism and Bicameral Agenda Coordination

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We examine why a significant proportion of the policy issues passed in either the U.S. House or Senate often fail to pass in the other chamber. We hypothesize that much of this failure of the House and Senate to coordinate their agendas occurs because committee jurisdictions are not parallel across chambers. To compare House and Senate agendas, we develop a comprehensive issue-level data set covering all bills introduced in the 103rd Congress. We estimate a multinomial logit model that reveals that the degree of jurisdictional parallelism across chambers is indeed one of the most important determinants of whether issues that pass in one chamber also pass in the other chamber.

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American Politics Research

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: sage publisher., 2010

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English

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1532673x

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Vol. 38 no. 1, January 2010, pp. 3-32

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Bicameralism
Congresional committees
Institutional norms
Commitee Jurisdictions

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