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FIXED‐INTERVAL WORK HABITS OF CONGRESS
Author(s) -
Weisberg Paul,
Waldrop Phillip B.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1972.5-93
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , legislature , interval (graph theory) , psychology , work (physics) , mathematics , law , computer science , political science , combinatorics , physics , world wide web , thermodynamics
The rate at which Congress passes bills during its legislative session exhibits a fixed‐interval pattern: the rate of passage is extremely low three to four months after commencement followed by a positively accelerated growth rate that continues until the time of adjournment. This scalloped configuration appears uniformly in each of the eight Congresses sampled, from 1947 to 1968, and in both sessions of each Congress.