A Spatial Model for Legislative Roll Call Analysis
Introduces NOMINATE, a probabilistic spatial model estimating legislator ideal points from roll call data via maximum …
Legislative-Data
Party Matters: Enhancing Legislative Embeddings
A method for improving legislative vote prediction across sessions by augmenting bill text embeddings with sponsor …
Tea Party in the House
A hierarchical probabilistic model combining roll call votes, bill text, and legislative speeches to analyze political …
Classifying Congressional Bills with Machine Learning
Testing ML classification of congressional bills by policy area. Comparing Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, and XGBoost …
How Does Congress Actually Work? Data from 15K Bills
What happens to bills in Congress? Analyzing 15K+ bills from the 117th Congress to understand legislative patterns, …
Congressional Knowledge Graph & Policy Classification
A 47,000+ bill knowledge graph from Congress.gov with sponsor networks and 87% policy classification accuracy.