# Inducing Polarization? The Effect of Congressional Procedure and Partisan Lawmaking on Ideal Point Estimation

Status: published
Visibility: public-pdf
Authors: with Austin Bussing
Venue: Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy
Year: 2022
DOI: 10.1561/113.00000068
Canonical URL: https://doi.org/10.1561/113.00000068

## Summary

The paper asks whether congressional procedure changes measured polarization by changing which votes make it into the roll-call record. Matched comparisons between House bills that bypass committee and similar bills that move through regular order show that bypassed bills tend to pass by narrower margins but are less likely to produce clean party-unity votes. Committee bypass therefore appears to dampen, rather than inflate, standard polarization estimates.

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