Replication Data for: Divided Government and the Fragmentation of American Law (doi:10.7910/DVN/29129)

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Replication Data for: Divided Government and the Fragmentation of American Law

doi:10.7910/DVN/29129

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2015-02-15

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Farhang, Sean; Yaver, Miranda, 2015, "Replication Data for: Divided Government and the Fragmentation of American Law", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29129, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:5:vSVaKabDzC+mB9m06MYXWg== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: Divided Government and the Fragmentation of American Law

doi:10.7910/DVN/29129

Farhang, Sean (University of California at Berkeley)

Yaver, Miranda (Columbia University)

Sean Farhang

Miranda Yaver

Harvard Dataverse

Miranda Yaver

Miranda Yaver

2015-02-14

2013

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29129

Social Sciences, Legislative bodies, Administrative state, Divided government, Policy implementation

We investigate institutional explanations for Congress's choice to fragment statutory frameworks for policy implementation. We argue that divided party government, which fuels legislative-executive conflict over control of the bureaucracy, motivates Congress to fragment implementation power as a strategy to enhance its control over implementation. We develop a novel measure of fragmentation in policy implementation, collect data on it over the period 1947 to 2008, and test hypotheses linking separation of powers structures to legislative design of fragmented implementation power. We find that divided party government is powerfully associated with fragmentation in policy implementation, and that this association contributed to the long-run growth of fragmentation in the post-war U.S. We further find that legislative coalitions are more likely to fragment implementation power in the face of greater uncertainty about remaining in the majority.

United States

United States

Significant domestic regulatory legislation, 1947-2008

Content analysis of significant legislation

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

Farhang, Sean, and Miranda Yaver. 2016. "Divided Government and the Fragmentation of American Law." <i>American Journal of Political Science</i> 60 (2): 401-417.

10.1111/ajps.12188

Farhang, Sean, and Miranda Yaver. 2016. "Divided Government and the Fragmentation of American Law." <i>American Journal of Political Science</i> 60 (2): 401-417.

• Number of cases: 218

• No. of variables per record: 42

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Dataset on significant regulatory legislation

• count_overlap
• year
• count_actors
• count_agencies
• closeraces
• congress
• div_gov
• execbranchsize
• divisiveness
• marginofcontrol
• policy_civrights
• policy_consumer
• policy_elections
• policy_energy
• policy_environment
• policy_fooddrug
• policy_healthsafety
• policy_housing
• policy_labor
• policy_nationalsecurity
• policy_omnibus
• policy_other
• policy_transportation
• pages
• partymargin
• regulatorycommands
• rulemakingratio
• spline1
• spline2
• margin_elections_interact
• seatsharelosses
• margin_losses_interact
• lawidnumber
• lawname
• pctyeanay
• z_actors - Standardized values of (count_actors)
• z_agencies - Standardized values of (count_agencies)
• z_overlap - Standardized values of (count_overlap)
• frag_index
• frag_factor - Scores for factor 1
• frag_index_pos
• frag_factor_pos

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