Replication Data for: The Legislative Matching Game: Committee Matching and Effective Legislating in the States

I argue that the value of a particular set of committee assignments for a legislator is dependent on that legislator's policy interests. By this, I mean that "good" assignments will match committee policy jurisdictions with member policy priorities. I develop this concept of committee-agenda matching and present a measure of this match for legislators in 12 state lower chambers. After some brief measure validation, I present a substantive application, demonstrating that this match poses serious consequences for individual legislator's ability to shepherd their bills through the legislative process.

本文认为，议员所获得的特定委员会席位组合的价值，取决于该议员的政策关切。就此而言，本文所称的「优质」席位分配，是指将委员会的政策管辖范围与议员的政策优先级相匹配。本文提出了委员会-议程匹配这一概念，并为12个州的众议院议员构建了该匹配度的量化指标。在完成简要的指标效度验证后，本文展示了一项实质性应用，证明该匹配度对议员推动自身法案顺利走完立法流程的能力具有显著影响。