There is considerable evidence that the processing of work in American state legislatures is characterized by bottlenecks, congestion, and logjams. Yet past research has examined only part of the legislative workload and part of the legislative calendar. Measurement and evaluation of legislative workload is complicated by the complexity of legislation and the legislative process. However, comprehensive analyses show that, although some important activities are quite congested in parts of the session, consideration of the entire workload shows it to be quite evenly distributed over the entire session. These findings call into question the assumptions of some simplistic normative models of legislative behavior.

Mathematics and politics

Legislative Workload Congestion in Texas

Les parlementaires et l'administration publique au Québec

A further note on the classification of political regions according to electoral behavior

Educational Innovation and Politico-Economic Systems.

The information-energy model is a theory which purports to explain changes in bureaucratic development for developing nations in terms of changes in ecological variables. This research note attempts to test the validity of the model and to assess its explanatory power through aggregate data analysis and cross-national causal modeling techniques. The results indicate that though ecological variables account for some variation in bureaucratic development, the overall explanatory power of the model is not what was initially hypothesized. Of all the paths in the causal model leading to bureaucratic development, the direct linkage between information and bureaucratic development is the strongest.

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Legislative Workload Congestion in Texas

Les parlementaires et l'administration publique au Québec

A further note on the classification of political regions according to electoral behavior

Educational Innovation and Politico-Economic Systems.

Testing the Information-Energy Model.

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