Congressional oversight is often mobilized by broader lobbying campaigns. Pressure campaigns mobilize individuals to pressure …

I examine how social movements affect policymaking by assessing the climate movement’s impact on 20 thousand policy documents …

Human coding and computational text analysis are more powerful when combined in an iterative workflow.

Understanding the gaps and connections across existing theories and findings is a perennial challenge in scientific research. …

This paper introduces a dataset of over 100,000 pages of discussion about how U.S. federal budget line items ought to be used and …

We assess the role of US NGOs in shaping Canadian boreal forest policy.

We leverage a massive new comprehensive database of constituent service requests from Members of Congress to examine which types of …

I investigate the conventional wisdom that courts are more likely to uphold federal agency policies made through notice-and-comment …