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Unpacking Agenda Control in Congress: Individual Roll Rates and the Republican Revolution

¹ The University of Georgia
² University of California, Merced
³ Binghamton University (SUNY)

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: grobinso{at}binghamton.edu.

	Abstract

The twelve years following the Republican revolution provide ideal ground to test existing theories of congressional behavior and organization.The authors examine the incidence of individual roll rates in the U.S. House to "unpack" the degree to which the 1994 election produced a change in agenda control and examine how it affected roll rates.Then,to understand differences in agenda control, we compare majority and minority party roll rates before and after the election. The results confirm majority party influence over the House agenda and show that the Republican leadership exhibited remarkably similar behavior to the Democrats prior to 1995.

First published on August 31, 2009
Political Research Quarterly 2009, doi:10.1177/1065912909343579


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