Research

We describe the major kinds of data that have proven useful to scholars studying interest group behavior and influence in bureaucratic …

Methods to measure regulatory stringency and a comparison of forest certification programs.

We use letters that legislators write to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to study congressional attempts to influence …

When Members of Congress gain experience and institutional power, do they use it to provide more constituent service or affect broad …

I examine how social movements affect policymaking by assessing the environmental justice movement’s impact on 25 thousand draft …

Scholars of bureaucratic policymaking have focused on the sophisticated lobbying efforts of powerful interest groups. Yet agencies …

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 …

Studies in inequality in American democracy typically focus upon the legislative process, largely sidestepping administrative …

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 …