Jeremy Gelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Gelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Gelman |
| SIGNATURE | GELMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1977-7130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The (Sometimes Untraceable) Origins of Policy Ideas in Congress: An Analysis of Seven Landmark Laws
Research on lawmaking suggests enactments are constructed in various ways. Although multiple approaches are documented in the literature, political scientists do not know which are used more often. In this paper, I examine how laws are created by studying seven modern landmark laws enacted during various policymaking windows. I use a text reuse approach to recursively trace each policy idea in these enactments to the original version proposed in …
The Deaths of Ideas in Congress
Research on lawmaking generally examines why lawmakers enact certain policy ideas. However, most ideas in the United States Congress never become law. Eventually, members stop introducing them altogether. This process, where policies are proposed, not acted on, and no longer advocated for is, by far, the most common legislative outcome. The literature pays it little attention. Yet, how ideas die is important in understanding why some measures sto…
Measuring Congressional Partisanship and Its Consequences
We develop a method for measuring a legislator’s partisanship using their Twitter rhetoric. To do so, we classify over 2.1 million tweets sent during two congressional terms (2015 through 2018) to determine how often members use explicitly partisan language. Since lawmakers are strategic in how they communicate with the public, we argue our approach captures a member’s partisan intensity, the time and effort they devote to supporting their party.…
Partisan Intensity in Congress: Evidence from Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination
Partisan disputes are ubiquitous in Congress. Yet, participation in this bickering varies among legislators. Some eagerly join these fights while others abstain. What explains this variation? Previous research examines this question by studying members’ partisan preferences expressed through votes or bill cosponsorships. However, preference-based studies miss much of the daily congressional bickering and cannot identify which legislators were mos…
Ask and You May Receive: Senators’ Strategies for Securing Particularistic Benefits
How do congressional leaders efficiently distribute particularistic benefits? When allocating funding, they face a problem: they want to help the rank-and-file, but do not know what projects are most valuable to their colleagues. I argue that leaders use two strategies to ensure projects are allocated efficiently, namely they reliably fund members' top priorities and line items that cost them little bargaining capital. Doing so allows them to ban…
Mixing messages: How candidates vary in their use of Twitter
How do candidates campaign on social media? To date, political scientists have mostly considered the content or tone of candidates’ social media posts. In this paper, we combine these research areas and study how candidates’ campaigns vary the content and tone of their messages. We argue incumbents emphasize positive issue content and limit attacking their opponent. Competitive races encourage positive mobilization posts and aggressive attack mes…
In pursuit of power: Competition for majority status and Senate partisanship
During the 20th century, Congress experienced two main shifts in partisan conflict. Early decades were marked by a substantial decrease in party divisiveness, reaching a nadir by mid-century. Beginning in the 1970s, partisanship has increased to the point that Congress is viewed as “hyper-partisan.” Political scientists have thoroughly examined this more recent shift; however, few studies consider why party divisiveness has fluctuated during the …
If Congress Is So Dysfunctional, Why Is Its Staff So Busy? A Congressional Fellow’s Perspective
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Rewarding Dysfunction: Interest Groups and Intended Legislative Failure
Why do majority parties choose to add extreme dead on arrival bills to their legislative agendas rather than enactable legislation? Majorities in Congress choose this strategy in order to accrue political support from their allied interest groups who reliably reward this legislative behavior. By examining all bills that receive floor consideration from 2003 through 2012, as well as interest group scorecards and campaign commercials, I find suppor…
The Opportunistic President: How US Presidents Determine Their Legislative Programs
The president is the most influential policy actor in US politics, and his legislative program greatly influences Congress's agenda. Yet little research has focused on what factors affect the president's choices when constructing his agenda. We develop a theory that determines when a president will include an issue in his program. We hypothesize that presidents structure their agendas around the congressional calendar for consideration of expirin…
Rewarding Dysfunction: Interest Groups and Intended Legislative Failure
Why do majority parties choose to add extreme dead on arrival bills to their legislative agendas rather than enactable legislation? Majorities in Congress choose this strategy in order to accrue political support from their allied interest groups who reliably reward this legislative behavior. By examining all bills that receive floor consideration from 2003 through 2012, as well as interest group scorecards and campaign commercials, I find suppor…
Mixing messages: How candidates vary in their use of Twitter
How do candidates campaign on social media? To date, political scientists have mostly considered the content or tone of candidates’ social media posts. In this paper, we combine these research areas and study how candidates’ campaigns vary the content and tone of their messages. We argue incumbents emphasize positive issue content and limit attacking their opponent. Competitive races encourage positive mobilization posts and aggressive attack mes…
Measuring Congressional Partisanship and Its Consequences
We develop a method for measuring a legislator’s partisanship using their Twitter rhetoric. To do so, we classify over 2.1 million tweets sent during two congressional terms (2015 through 2018) to determine how often members use explicitly partisan language. Since lawmakers are strategic in how they communicate with the public, we argue our approach captures a member’s partisan intensity, the time and effort they devote to supporting their party.…
The Opportunistic President: How US Presidents Determine Their Legislative Programs
The president is the most influential policy actor in US politics, and his legislative program greatly influences Congress's agenda. Yet little research has focused on what factors affect the president's choices when constructing his agenda. We develop a theory that determines when a president will include an issue in his program. We hypothesize that presidents structure their agendas around the congressional calendar for consideration of expirin…
Partisan Intensity in Congress: Evidence from Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination
Partisan disputes are ubiquitous in Congress. Yet, participation in this bickering varies among legislators. Some eagerly join these fights while others abstain. What explains this variation? Previous research examines this question by studying members’ partisan preferences expressed through votes or bill cosponsorships. However, preference-based studies miss much of the daily congressional bickering and cannot identify which legislators were mos…
The Deaths of Ideas in Congress
Research on lawmaking generally examines why lawmakers enact certain policy ideas. However, most ideas in the United States Congress never become law. Eventually, members stop introducing them altogether. This process, where policies are proposed, not acted on, and no longer advocated for is, by far, the most common legislative outcome. The literature pays it little attention. Yet, how ideas die is important in understanding why some measures sto…
In pursuit of power: Competition for majority status and Senate partisanship
During the 20th century, Congress experienced two main shifts in partisan conflict. Early decades were marked by a substantial decrease in party divisiveness, reaching a nadir by mid-century. Beginning in the 1970s, partisanship has increased to the point that Congress is viewed as “hyper-partisan.” Political scientists have thoroughly examined this more recent shift; however, few studies consider why party divisiveness has fluctuated during the …
Ask and You May Receive: Senators’ Strategies for Securing Particularistic Benefits
How do congressional leaders efficiently distribute particularistic benefits? When allocating funding, they face a problem: they want to help the rank-and-file, but do not know what projects are most valuable to their colleagues. I argue that leaders use two strategies to ensure projects are allocated efficiently, namely they reliably fund members' top priorities and line items that cost them little bargaining capital. Doing so allows them to ban…
If Congress Is So Dysfunctional, Why Is Its Staff So Busy? A Congressional Fellow’s Perspective
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Opportunistic President: How US Presidents Determine Their Legislative Programs
The president is the most influential policy actor in US politics, and his legislative program greatly influences Congress's agenda. Yet little research has focused on what factors affect the president's choices when constructing his agenda. We develop a theory that determines when a president will include an issue in his program. We hypothesize that presidents structure their agendas around the congressional calendar for consideration of expirin…
Rewarding Dysfunction: Interest Groups and Intended Legislative Failure
Why do majority parties choose to add extreme dead on arrival bills to their legislative agendas rather than enactable legislation? Majorities in Congress choose this strategy in order to accrue political support from their allied interest groups who reliably reward this legislative behavior. By examining all bills that receive floor consideration from 2003 through 2012, as well as interest group scorecards and campaign commercials, I find suppor…
If Congress Is So Dysfunctional, Why Is Its Staff So Busy? A Congressional Fellow’s Perspective
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
In pursuit of power: Competition for majority status and Senate partisanship
During the 20th century, Congress experienced two main shifts in partisan conflict. Early decades were marked by a substantial decrease in party divisiveness, reaching a nadir by mid-century. Beginning in the 1970s, partisanship has increased to the point that Congress is viewed as “hyper-partisan.” Political scientists have thoroughly examined this more recent shift; however, few studies consider why party divisiveness has fluctuated during the …
Mixing messages: How candidates vary in their use of Twitter
How do candidates campaign on social media? To date, political scientists have mostly considered the content or tone of candidates’ social media posts. In this paper, we combine these research areas and study how candidates’ campaigns vary the content and tone of their messages. We argue incumbents emphasize positive issue content and limit attacking their opponent. Competitive races encourage positive mobilization posts and aggressive attack mes…
Partisan Intensity in Congress: Evidence from Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination
Partisan disputes are ubiquitous in Congress. Yet, participation in this bickering varies among legislators. Some eagerly join these fights while others abstain. What explains this variation? Previous research examines this question by studying members’ partisan preferences expressed through votes or bill cosponsorships. However, preference-based studies miss much of the daily congressional bickering and cannot identify which legislators were mos…
Ask and You May Receive: Senators’ Strategies for Securing Particularistic Benefits
How do congressional leaders efficiently distribute particularistic benefits? When allocating funding, they face a problem: they want to help the rank-and-file, but do not know what projects are most valuable to their colleagues. I argue that leaders use two strategies to ensure projects are allocated efficiently, namely they reliably fund members' top priorities and line items that cost them little bargaining capital. Doing so allows them to ban…
Measuring Congressional Partisanship and Its Consequences
We develop a method for measuring a legislator’s partisanship using their Twitter rhetoric. To do so, we classify over 2.1 million tweets sent during two congressional terms (2015 through 2018) to determine how often members use explicitly partisan language. Since lawmakers are strategic in how they communicate with the public, we argue our approach captures a member’s partisan intensity, the time and effort they devote to supporting their party.…
The Deaths of Ideas in Congress
Research on lawmaking generally examines why lawmakers enact certain policy ideas. However, most ideas in the United States Congress never become law. Eventually, members stop introducing them altogether. This process, where policies are proposed, not acted on, and no longer advocated for is, by far, the most common legislative outcome. The literature pays it little attention. Yet, how ideas die is important in understanding why some measures sto…
The (Sometimes Untraceable) Origins of Policy Ideas in Congress: An Analysis of Seven Landmark Laws
Research on lawmaking suggests enactments are constructed in various ways. Although multiple approaches are documented in the literature, political scientists do not know which are used more often. In this paper, I examine how laws are created by studying seven modern landmark laws enacted during various policymaking windows. I use a text reuse approach to recursively trace each policy idea in these enactments to the original version proposed in …
Political science (10 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Legislature (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works)