Casey Burgat
Biographic Data
| ID | 4194150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Casey Burgat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Casey |
| FAMILY NAME | Burgat |
| SIGNATURE | BURGAT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management, Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Partisan Competition and the Decline in Legislative Capacity among Congressional Offices
Since the 1990s, members of the US House have shifted resources away from legislative functions to representational activities. We reveal this decline using an original dataset constructed from 236,000 quarterly payroll disbursements by 1,090 member offices for 120,000 unique staff between the 103rd and 113th Congresses, as well as interviews with former members and staff in Congress. These data allow us to test two plausible alternative explanat…
Dual Experiences—Tenure and Networks in the House of Representatives
In this article, I argue that members of Congress are strategic in who they hire and how they decide to assign certain legislative portfolios. Using a novel dataset of all House of Representatives staffers for the 114th Congress, including each staffer's legislative portfolio and career history, I test whether issue assignments are the result of longer aide tenure on the Hill (as the staffing literature suggests), experience working in multiple m…
Partisan Competition and the Decline in Legislative Capacity among Congressional Offices
Since the 1990s, members of the US House have shifted resources away from legislative functions to representational activities. We reveal this decline using an original dataset constructed from 236,000 quarterly payroll disbursements by 1,090 member offices for 120,000 unique staff between the 103rd and 113th Congresses, as well as interviews with former members and staff in Congress. These data allow us to test two plausible alternative explanat…
Dual Experiences—Tenure and Networks in the House of Representatives
In this article, I argue that members of Congress are strategic in who they hire and how they decide to assign certain legislative portfolios. Using a novel dataset of all House of Representatives staffers for the 114th Congress, including each staffer's legislative portfolio and career history, I test whether issue assignments are the result of longer aide tenure on the Hill (as the staffing literature suggests), experience working in multiple m…
Dual Experiences—Tenure and Networks in the House of Representatives
In this article, I argue that members of Congress are strategic in who they hire and how they decide to assign certain legislative portfolios. Using a novel dataset of all House of Representatives staffers for the 114th Congress, including each staffer's legislative portfolio and career history, I test whether issue assignments are the result of longer aide tenure on the Hill (as the staffing literature suggests), experience working in multiple m…
Partisan Competition and the Decline in Legislative Capacity among Congressional Offices
Since the 1990s, members of the US House have shifted resources away from legislative functions to representational activities. We reveal this decline using an original dataset constructed from 236,000 quarterly payroll disbursements by 1,090 member offices for 120,000 unique staff between the 103rd and 113th Congresses, as well as interviews with former members and staff in Congress. These data allow us to test two plausible alternative explanat…
Economics (2 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Legislature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Accounting (1 works) · Business (1 works)