Given that Congressional hearings are established legislative and political information generating tools for committee members engaging in oversight, fact finding, and agenda setting, I examine whether or not hearings provide information to actors outside of government. More specifically, does...

We show that senators elected in presidential elections are more ideologically extreme than senators elected in midterm elections. This finding is in contrast to the literature suggesting that voters in presidential elections are more ideologically moderate than voters in midterm elections. To...

We offer a model of colleague valuation to illuminate the coordination challenges women legislators face. Our model predicts that women members' strategies depend upon whether they value women colleagues as much as men do, or instead value fellow women colleagues more highly. We test these...