Frank Schweitzer

Helping a Friend or Supporting a Cause? Disentangling Active and Passive Cosponsorship in the U.S. Congress

In the U.S. Congress, legislators can use active and passive cosponsorship to support bills. We show that these two types of cosponsorship are driven by two different motivations: the backing of political colleagues and the backing of the bill’s content. To this end, we develop an Encoder+RGCN based…