The Congressional Capacity Surveys are the most comprehensive study of congressional staffers’ professional backgrounds, career paths, policy views, technical knowledge, substantive expertise, and job experiences ever conducted. The ongoing project conducted over 60 in-person, semi-structured interviews with senior staff in 2017 and fielded surveys of all Washington-based staff in member, committee, and leadership offices in 2017 and 2019. This Dataverse stores replication materials and supporting information for publications and working papers stemming from the project, including Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform, edited by Timothy LaPira, Lee Drutman, and Kevin Kosar (forthcoming 2020, University of Chicago Press).
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Replication Data for Congressional Capacity Survey 2017 v1.3
Nov 1, 2022
LaPira, Timothy, 2022, "Replication Data for Congressional Capacity Survey 2017 v1.3", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QSK6PM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:ahMeK8AOoFHEAbBu1bOTkQ== [fileUNF]
Timothy LaPira and Alexander Furnas were co-Principal Investigators of the 2017 Congressional Capacity Survey, which they fielded with collaborators as part of the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group. Lee Drutman, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, and Kevin Kosar were also co-PIs. In the second half of 2017, the Legislative Branch Capacity Working...
Codebook for Congressional Capacity Survey 2017 v1.3
Codebook for Congressional Capacity Survey 2017 v1.3
Nov 1, 2022
LaPira, Timothy, 2022, "Codebook for Congressional Capacity Survey 2017 v1.3", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ANMGQL, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This codebook to the 2017 Congressional Capacity Survey describes data and post-stratification weights.
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