Molly E Reynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 4194088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Molly E Reynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Molly E |
| FAMILY NAME | Reynolds |
| SIGNATURE | REYNOLDS M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brookings Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Personal or the Partisan? The Politics of House Appropriations Amendments, 1985-2016
Offering amendments represents an important tool for individual members to engage in behaviors that help them pursue reelection, like position-taking and credit claiming. When the House leadership limits the opportunities for rank-and-file members to offer amendments on most measures debated on the floor but leaves spending bills relatively open to amendment, we might expect that individual members will respond by redirecting their amendments to …
What If You Could Pick the Pivot? Budget Reconciliation and Pivotal Politics in the Contemporary Congress
Krehbiel’s Pivotal Politics has served as an influential lens through which to analyze legislative politics in the contemporary Congress since its publication in 1998. In this article, I use Krehbiel's model to explore an increasingly relevant component of legislative policy making: a set of procedures that protect certain bills from the possibility of a filibuster in the US Senate known as the budget reconciliation process. By examining examples…
Issue Advertising and Legislative Voting on the Affordable Care Act
During the congressional fight over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), interest groups spent record sums on television issue advertising in targeted efforts to influence members of Congress, but did the money make any difference? We use the literatures on outside lobbying and legislative behavior to develop two hypotheses about issue advertising’s effects on members’ voting decisions. We test the hypotheses using population-weighted, station-level ad…
Putting the Brakes on Greased Wheels
Obstruction is a fundamental aspect of legislative politics. In the United States Congress, senators exercise procedural prerogatives to defeat a bill with which they disagree on policy grounds. We argue that senators also utilize obstructive tactics in order to do more than block legislation with which they disagree. We claim that legislators engage in “weak” (as opposed to strong) obstruction in an effort to accrue political benefits to themsel…
Targeted Issue Advertising and Legislative Strategy
Interest group spending on issue advertising is growing dramatically, but we know very little about its deployment and purpose in legislative advocacy. This article begins to fill the gap, examining where, when, and why interest groups run television issue advertisements. We start from the premise that issue advertising is a form of outside lobbying, but we argue that it can serve two legislative ends. We hypothesize, first, that group strategist…
Targeted Issue Advertising and Legislative Strategy
Interest group spending on issue advertising is growing dramatically, but we know very little about its deployment and purpose in legislative advocacy. This article begins to fill the gap, examining where, when, and why interest groups run television issue advertisements. We start from the premise that issue advertising is a form of outside lobbying, but we argue that it can serve two legislative ends. We hypothesize, first, that group strategist…
Issue Advertising and Legislative Voting on the Affordable Care Act
During the congressional fight over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), interest groups spent record sums on television issue advertising in targeted efforts to influence members of Congress, but did the money make any difference? We use the literatures on outside lobbying and legislative behavior to develop two hypotheses about issue advertising’s effects on members’ voting decisions. We test the hypotheses using population-weighted, station-level ad…
Putting the Brakes on Greased Wheels
Obstruction is a fundamental aspect of legislative politics. In the United States Congress, senators exercise procedural prerogatives to defeat a bill with which they disagree on policy grounds. We argue that senators also utilize obstructive tactics in order to do more than block legislation with which they disagree. We claim that legislators engage in “weak” (as opposed to strong) obstruction in an effort to accrue political benefits to themsel…
The Personal or the Partisan? The Politics of House Appropriations Amendments, 1985-2016
Offering amendments represents an important tool for individual members to engage in behaviors that help them pursue reelection, like position-taking and credit claiming. When the House leadership limits the opportunities for rank-and-file members to offer amendments on most measures debated on the floor but leaves spending bills relatively open to amendment, we might expect that individual members will respond by redirecting their amendments to …
What If You Could Pick the Pivot? Budget Reconciliation and Pivotal Politics in the Contemporary Congress
Krehbiel’s Pivotal Politics has served as an influential lens through which to analyze legislative politics in the contemporary Congress since its publication in 1998. In this article, I use Krehbiel's model to explore an increasingly relevant component of legislative policy making: a set of procedures that protect certain bills from the possibility of a filibuster in the US Senate known as the budget reconciliation process. By examining examples…
Targeted Issue Advertising and Legislative Strategy
Interest group spending on issue advertising is growing dramatically, but we know very little about its deployment and purpose in legislative advocacy. This article begins to fill the gap, examining where, when, and why interest groups run television issue advertisements. We start from the premise that issue advertising is a form of outside lobbying, but we argue that it can serve two legislative ends. We hypothesize, first, that group strategist…
Putting the Brakes on Greased Wheels
Obstruction is a fundamental aspect of legislative politics. In the United States Congress, senators exercise procedural prerogatives to defeat a bill with which they disagree on policy grounds. We argue that senators also utilize obstructive tactics in order to do more than block legislation with which they disagree. We claim that legislators engage in “weak” (as opposed to strong) obstruction in an effort to accrue political benefits to themsel…
What If You Could Pick the Pivot? Budget Reconciliation and Pivotal Politics in the Contemporary Congress
Krehbiel’s Pivotal Politics has served as an influential lens through which to analyze legislative politics in the contemporary Congress since its publication in 1998. In this article, I use Krehbiel's model to explore an increasingly relevant component of legislative policy making: a set of procedures that protect certain bills from the possibility of a filibuster in the US Senate known as the budget reconciliation process. By examining examples…
Issue Advertising and Legislative Voting on the Affordable Care Act
During the congressional fight over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), interest groups spent record sums on television issue advertising in targeted efforts to influence members of Congress, but did the money make any difference? We use the literatures on outside lobbying and legislative behavior to develop two hypotheses about issue advertising’s effects on members’ voting decisions. We test the hypotheses using population-weighted, station-level ad…
The Personal or the Partisan? The Politics of House Appropriations Amendments, 1985-2016
Offering amendments represents an important tool for individual members to engage in behaviors that help them pursue reelection, like position-taking and credit claiming. When the House leadership limits the opportunities for rank-and-file members to offer amendments on most measures debated on the floor but leaves spending bills relatively open to amendment, we might expect that individual members will respond by redirecting their amendments to …
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