Replication Data for: Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments (doi:10.7910/DVN/2JDXSQ)

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Replication Data for: Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments

doi:10.7910/DVN/2JDXSQ

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2025-01-23

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Curry, James M.; Rosenstiel, Leah, 2025, "Replication Data for: Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2JDXSQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:VAGQcHe/LPFo3Upp1d2jtg== [fileUNF]

Replication Data for: Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments

doi:10.7910/DVN/2JDXSQ

Curry, James M. (University of Utah)

Rosenstiel, Leah (Vanderbilt University)

Harvard Dataverse

Rosenstiel, Leah

Rosenstiel, Leah

2024-12-06

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2JDXSQ

Social Sciences, Congress, Unorthodox Lawmaking

Do unorthodox lawmaking processes reduce the influence provided to lawmakers by their committee assignments? In recent decades, Congress has increasingly used "unorthodox" processes to consider and pass legislation. Included among these unorthodox approaches is a more frequent bypassing of formal committee-led processes. Some scholars and observers expect that these violations of the "regular order" may reduce the influence committee members have on policy outcomes. However, this intuition has not been tested in any systematic way. Drawing on data every federal formula grant program reauthorized more than one time since 1980, we compare amounts going to states across programs that were and were not subject to formal committee mark-ups and conferences during reauthorization efforts. We do not find any evidence that the value of a committee seat is affected by whether or not committee-led stages of the legislative process are bypassed.

• Number of cases: 85856

• No. of variables per record: 24

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

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• congress - congress
• program - program
• public_law - public_law
• committee_code - committee_code
• s_nocommreport - s_nocommreport
• s_postcommadj - s_postcommadj
• no_conference - no_conference
• year_auth_starts - year_auth_starts
• public_law_prior - public_law_prior
• year - year
• program_year - program_year
• state - state
• grant - grant
• state_abbr - state_abbr
• on_commit - on_commit
• committee_maj - committee_maj
• committee_min - committee_min
• chair - chair
• on_commit_prior - on_commit_prior
• committee_maj_prior - committee_maj_prior
• committee_min_prior - committee_min_prior
• chair_prior - chair_prior
• name - name
• agency - agency

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Summary Statistics: StDev 5.125426956194229; Valid 85856.0; Mean 105.87321794633087; Min. 94.0; Max. 116.0;

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: character

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f10756494 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:PLeF5vXBq6p+kRxnI5c32Q==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 351.5590756615733; Valid 85856.0; Max. 362.0; StDev 18.154615957960424; Min. 305.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:E+PoUDLSxZrO5e/J1vZ3fw==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 0.3249263780789954; Valid 85856.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.11996831904584172;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:haGefRXf6WHlLMWgyOqlkg==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 85856.0; StDev 0.4982738161879132; Mean 0.4584536898994141; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:kjksEXCvCZ51k/ZZp7eXSw==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.1933237048080602; StDev 0.39490690852140325; Valid 85856.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:O0jqF8WVkQZhlAyy0c0zUw==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 2000.3754542489733; Valid 85856.0; Max. 2020.0; StDev 10.102752183467693; Min. 1976.0

Variable Format: numeric

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f10756494 Location:

Variable Format: character

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f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 2004.7008479314168; StDev 10.68606265125527; Max. 2021.0; Valid 85856.0; Min. 1980.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: character

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Summary Statistics: Max. 3.9795E9; Min. 0.0; Mean 3.131159900349221E7; StDev 1.1856131745801058E8; Valid 84007.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: character

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Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Mean 0.3587052739470725; Valid 85856.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.4796232685576026

Variable Format: numeric

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f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.5564827742961999; Valid 30797.0; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.49680751861302574

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:VwNk+YGBuYXacTF8LmplhQ==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0; StDev 0.49680751861302574; Valid 30797.0; Mean 0.44351722570380014

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:h9v2ePjzKuWtFzEyqpEVBw==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. 0.0; StDev 0.13927516781231677; Valid 85856.0; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.01978894893775596

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:OIy3w+TRYMLH/i95n/OceA==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 85856.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.29285081997764184; StDev 0.4550732131177169

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:x3whgSmdOV9FSCrnCIXYYw==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 25143.0; Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.5812751063914408; StDev 0.4933599475721227;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:2nrcQEhO2zX+g20vbjHPWA==

f10756494 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1.0; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.4933599475721227; Mean 0.4187248936085592; Valid 25143.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:8zsqj7lymjiQJ2Ypi1lwog==

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Summary Statistics: StDev 0.130675710864958; Mean 0.01737793514722311; Max. 1.0; Valid 85856.0; Min. 0.0;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:EvAyk4pAAWkYyguMxP6vjw==

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