Tyler Hughes

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    How Democrats can influence debate in the House of Representatives under the Trump administration.

How Democrats can influence debate in the House of Representatives under the Trump administration.

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The Democrats are now locked out of the presidency for at least another four years and the Majority in the US House and Senate until 2018 or even beyond. But, writes Tyler Hughes, they may still be able to influence policy debates in Congress. By studying more than 43,000 House speeches over 23 years, he finds that when a […]

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    How party polarization makes the legislative process even slower when government is divided.

How party polarization makes the legislative process even slower when government is divided.

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Since 2010, the U.S. has experienced divided government, with the Democrats holding the White House, and The Republican Party controlling the House of Representatives, and since January, the Senate. In new research which analyses the passage of 2,200 bills from 1949 to 2010, Tyler Hughes and Deven Carlson find that divided government slows down the legislative process by 60 […]

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