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This thesis analyses the legal status and the importance of short titles in the legislative processes of the Westminster Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, and the US Congress. Through a large quantitative survey of US short titles that spanned over 30 years and 18 Congresses,…

This dissertation comprises three essays on latent variable models and Bayesian statistical methods for the study of American legislative institutions and the more general problems of measurement and model comparison. In the first paper, I explore the dimensionality of latent va…

This dissertation builds upon the growing body of literature on legislative staff. First, I explore the variables that make congressional staff want to leave Congress by using a survey of staff to examine staffer intention to leave and observable turnover. Second, I explore the …