Austin Bussing
Biographic Data
| ID | 4122568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Austin Bussing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Austin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bussing |
| SIGNATURE | BÜSSING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7631-5493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Language of Delegation: An NLP Analysis of Congressional Bill Text
Delegation of powers from the legislature to the executive branch is a nearly ubiquitous feature of modern lawmaking. However, much of what scholars know about delegation is gleaned from an exclusive focus on landmark legislation. We introduce a method to identify delegating language across a larger universe of legislation. Using an active learning convolutional neural network on bill text, we classify bill sections by their delegation content, a…
The Legislative Legacy of Voter Identification Laws
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories
The catalysts of “Red for Ed”: Statewide teachers’ strikes as collective voice and conflict expansion for communities of fate
In 2018 and 2019, public school teachers mobilized for strikes across a diverse set of states. Why did some states see massive teacher mobilizations, while others did not? We argue that declining resources for both teachers and students and restrictive collective bargaining laws, among other legal-political factors, catalyzed statewide teacher mobilization. We analyze which factors shaped the likelihood of a statewide teachers’ strikes, finding t…
The Junior Americanist Workshop Series
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Congressional oversight and electoral accountability
Legislative oversight allows Congress to investigate potential wrongdoing by executive branch actors. We present a model in which an incumbent exercises oversight and chooses to take corrective action against the executive before going up for reelection. We show that partisan types who prefer to take corrective action regardless of the probability of wrongdoing will always conduct oversight, but sincere types who only want to correct legitimate w…
The Electoral Consequences of Roll Call Voting: Health Care and the 2018 Election
Majority Party Agenda Setting: Picking Fights or Avoiding Them
In legislatures such as the U.S. House of Representatives, where the majority party controls the agenda, the frequency of observed partisan disagreement is partially a function of strategic agenda‐setting choices made by that party. Do majority party leaders use their agenda control to privilege bills that accentuate disagreements with the minority party? In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework focused on the costs and benefits associat…
Majority Party Strategy and Suspension of the Rules in the House
Most bills that pass the House of Representatives do so under suspension of the rules. Despite the procedure’s prevalence, however, we know little about its systematic use. Although the supermajoritarian threshold for passage of bills under suspension typically precludes the majority party from using these bills for partisan policy, I argue that leadership control over the procedure still allows for the pursuit of party goals. Speakers split the …
Place matters: Government capacity, community characteristics, and social capital across United States counties
Communities with high levels of social capital enjoy an array of positive economic and community development outcomes. We assess the role of several key community characteristics, including the strength of government institutions, in explaining local social capital variation. The analysis draws on data from United States counties and includes regression modelling and a Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition to explore differences in social capital across a…
The Electoral Consequences of Roll Call Voting: Health Care and the 2018 Election
Majority Party Strategy and Suspension of the Rules in the House
Most bills that pass the House of Representatives do so under suspension of the rules. Despite the procedure’s prevalence, however, we know little about its systematic use. Although the supermajoritarian threshold for passage of bills under suspension typically precludes the majority party from using these bills for partisan policy, I argue that leadership control over the procedure still allows for the pursuit of party goals. Speakers split the …
Place matters: Government capacity, community characteristics, and social capital across United States counties
Communities with high levels of social capital enjoy an array of positive economic and community development outcomes. We assess the role of several key community characteristics, including the strength of government institutions, in explaining local social capital variation. The analysis draws on data from United States counties and includes regression modelling and a Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition to explore differences in social capital across a…
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories
The Legislative Legacy of Voter Identification Laws
The catalysts of “Red for Ed”: Statewide teachers’ strikes as collective voice and conflict expansion for communities of fate
In 2018 and 2019, public school teachers mobilized for strikes across a diverse set of states. Why did some states see massive teacher mobilizations, while others did not? We argue that declining resources for both teachers and students and restrictive collective bargaining laws, among other legal-political factors, catalyzed statewide teacher mobilization. We analyze which factors shaped the likelihood of a statewide teachers’ strikes, finding t…
Majority Party Agenda Setting: Picking Fights or Avoiding Them
In legislatures such as the U.S. House of Representatives, where the majority party controls the agenda, the frequency of observed partisan disagreement is partially a function of strategic agenda‐setting choices made by that party. Do majority party leaders use their agenda control to privilege bills that accentuate disagreements with the minority party? In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework focused on the costs and benefits associat…
Majority Party Strategy and Suspension of the Rules in the House
Most bills that pass the House of Representatives do so under suspension of the rules. Despite the procedure’s prevalence, however, we know little about its systematic use. Although the supermajoritarian threshold for passage of bills under suspension typically precludes the majority party from using these bills for partisan policy, I argue that leadership control over the procedure still allows for the pursuit of party goals. Speakers split the …
Place matters: Government capacity, community characteristics, and social capital across United States counties
Communities with high levels of social capital enjoy an array of positive economic and community development outcomes. We assess the role of several key community characteristics, including the strength of government institutions, in explaining local social capital variation. The analysis draws on data from United States counties and includes regression modelling and a Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition to explore differences in social capital across a…
The Junior Americanist Workshop Series
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Congressional oversight and electoral accountability
Legislative oversight allows Congress to investigate potential wrongdoing by executive branch actors. We present a model in which an incumbent exercises oversight and chooses to take corrective action against the executive before going up for reelection. We show that partisan types who prefer to take corrective action regardless of the probability of wrongdoing will always conduct oversight, but sincere types who only want to correct legitimate w…
The Electoral Consequences of Roll Call Voting: Health Care and the 2018 Election
Majority Party Agenda Setting: Picking Fights or Avoiding Them
In legislatures such as the U.S. House of Representatives, where the majority party controls the agenda, the frequency of observed partisan disagreement is partially a function of strategic agenda‐setting choices made by that party. Do majority party leaders use their agenda control to privilege bills that accentuate disagreements with the minority party? In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework focused on the costs and benefits associat…
The catalysts of “Red for Ed”: Statewide teachers’ strikes as collective voice and conflict expansion for communities of fate
In 2018 and 2019, public school teachers mobilized for strikes across a diverse set of states. Why did some states see massive teacher mobilizations, while others did not? We argue that declining resources for both teachers and students and restrictive collective bargaining laws, among other legal-political factors, catalyzed statewide teacher mobilization. We analyze which factors shaped the likelihood of a statewide teachers’ strikes, finding t…
The Legislative Legacy of Voter Identification Laws
Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from DC and the Territories
The Language of Delegation: An NLP Analysis of Congressional Bill Text
Delegation of powers from the legislature to the executive branch is a nearly ubiquitous feature of modern lawmaking. However, much of what scholars know about delegation is gleaned from an exclusive focus on landmark legislation. We introduce a method to identify delegating language across a larger universe of legislation. Using an active learning convolutional neural network on bill text, we classify bill sections by their delegation content, a…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (3 works)