Journal article
Legislative success and collaboration in the Texas State House
Politics, groups & identities, Vol.13(1), pp.159-181
01/2025
DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2024.2328555
Abstract
Women and racial and ethnic minority legislators achieve varying levels of legislative success due to the discrimination they face in elections and the legislature. To overcome these disadvantages, some scholars suggest that legislators employ cooperative strategies to achieve higher success. In a diverse legislature, we ask whether legislators cooperate with each other via bill cosponsorship as a strategy to increase their legislative success. We examine success rates and cosponsorship strategies within the diverse Texas House of Representatives to answer these questions. We find that while white women and women of color have success rates similar to white men, racial and ethnic minority men have lower success rates compared to other legislators. White women, women of color, and men of color all exhibit diverse cosponsorship patterns; yet these tactics do not lead to higher legislative success rates for women and minorities. These conclusions in the Texas House offer a hypothesis-building case study of legislative success and multi-group collaboration in a diverse state legislature.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Legislative success and collaboration in the Texas State House
- Creators
- Abigail A. Matthews - University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkTracy Osborn - University of IowaEmily U. Schilling - University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleRebecca Kreitzer - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Politics, groups & identities, Vol.13(1), pp.159-181
- DOI
- 10.1080/21565503.2024.2328555
- ISSN
- 2156-5503
- eISSN
- 2156-5511
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 23
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 03/20/2024
- Date published
- 01/2025
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984583617802771
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