Why Are These People Smiling?
Because they’ve just been released from their capitivity in “The Monkey Cage.” Many thanks to Forrest Maltzman and Sarah Binder for spending a couple of weeks with us, guest-blogging. We hope they’ll stop back for the occasional visit. Now that they’ve been released from the cage, they can return to their normal life — to their kids
and of course to their dog, who doesn’t seem all that delighted by the prospect.
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A parting question for Maltzman, Binder, and any other institutions scholars out there: How do Clinton, Obama, and McCain compare in terms of legislative productivity? Either by year or aggregated across their legislative careers, how many bills have they sponsored or co-sponsored, how many of these bills have passed, and how much of this legislation has been major in the Mayhew-ian sense? Also, given there are claims made in the presidential contest about working across the aisle, how often is that actually true? What are the average ideal points of their co-sponsors (primary or secondary) on bills they have proposed and/or passed, and how distant are those average ideal points from their own?
Posted by: Kevin | February 15, 2008 11:51 AM