Legislating while Learning: How Staff Briefings, Cue-Taking, and Deliberation Help Legislators Take Policy Positions

This dissertation examines how legislators learn about policy proposals. It focuses on three common sources of policy information --- staff briefings, cues, and group deliberations --- to show the causal effect of information on legislators' policy positions. It uses a new approach, field exper...

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Main Author: Zelizer, Adam
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D8QG098P