Reforming Congress – Craig Volden and Alan Wiseman (Part 1)

0:17 – Introduction
5:23 – Areas of interest related to Congress (Craig Volden)
7:06 – Have you been able to leverage your experience in aerospace to guide your research and methodologies when studying Congress?
8:44 – Areas of interest related to Congress (Alan Wiseman)
10:46 – About the Center for Effective Lawmaking
12:03 – About the Legislative Effectiveness Scores (LES)
16:26 – Describing the factors that contribute to the effect of lawmaking on the US Congress
23:19 – Discussing the issue specific findings: What policy areas are easier or harder to pass legislation through?
27:41 – How many bills do lawmakers introduce? What interesting patterns have you learned about this activity?
32:14 – Do all members of Congress have similar or different distributions of Commemorative, Substantive, and Significant bills?
35:35 – Have you tried to investigate how lawmakers contribute content to their colleagues’ bills without personally authoring a bill?