Congressional Attitude: Congressional Bill Sentiment in Major Policy Areas

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dc.contributorJones, Bryan
dc.creatorWhitlock, Will
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-29T15:41:07Z
dc.date.available2024-02-29T15:41:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-05
dc.description.abstractWhitlock looks at how issue ownership effects bill sentiment and the language used in the bills introduced by members of Congress. The author maps the positive and negative nature of bills introduced in Congress in three major policy areas to not only learn about major shifts in policy, but also about the roles the major political parties played in facilitating change. The study looks at bills from the topics of welfare, defense, and the environment to understand trends from a variety of policy areas. The author was able to map the changes in bill sentiment by coding a dataset of bills from 1947 to 2016 and their bill titles with a political sentiment dictionary. This data was then compared to the public opinion of the time period. The results of the research showed three major findings. First, issue ownership was not very influential on bill sentiment, but the party with a majority in Congress had a higher positive sentiment. The period known as The Great Broadening was very influential on bill sentiment. And lastly public opinion was correlated with bill sentiment in regard to national defense and the environment but was inversely correlated to welfare bill sentiment because of the influence of major social movements.
dc.description.departmentGovernment
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/123851
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.26153/tsw/50644
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPlan II Honors Theses - Openly Available
dc.rights.restrictionopen
dc.subjectissue ownership
dc.subjectlanguage
dc.subjectwelfare
dc.subjectdefense
dc.subjectenvironment
dc.subjectgreat broadening
dc.titleCongressional Attitude: Congressional Bill Sentiment in Major Policy Areas
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