Tracing the Flow of Policy Ideas in Legislatures
A Text Reuse Approach
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 6230044 |
|---|---|
| Autores | John Wilkerson (University of Washington), David Smith (0000-0002-8202-8108, Northeastern University), David A Smith (0000-0002-7664-1731, Universidad del Noreste), Nicholas Stramp (0000-0003-4516-2081, University of Washington) |
| Año | 2015 |
| Volumen | 59 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 943-956 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12175 |
| OpenAlex | W2148752429 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 79 |
| Referencias citadas | 33 |
This article proposes a new approach to investigating the substance of lawmaking. Only a very small proportion of bills become law in the U.S. Congress. However, the bills that do become law often serve as vehicles for language originating in other bills. We investigate “text reuse” methods as a means for tracing the progress of policy ideas in legislation. We then show how a focus on policy ideas leads to new insights into the lawmaking process. Although our focus is on relating content found within bills, the same methods can be used to study policy substance across many research domains
Focus (optics · Law and economics · Lawmaking · Legislation · Legislative history · Legislature · Political science · Process (computing · Programming language · Reuse · Sociology · Tracing · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Computer Science · Engineering · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
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