ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at legislative outcomes in three different ways. It also looks at how the individual characteristics of legislators interact with the institutional context to shape legislative success. The chapter looks committee success, by examining variation in the rates at which bills that are approved by committees are supported by the full chamber. It examines how the factors come together in different contexts to shape passage by the entire chamber. The standard deviations for the measures show that there is wide variation in patterns of effectiveness within a given chamber. Thus, as with the activity measures, the descriptive statistics show that patterns of effectiveness vary within and across states and vary across types of legislative activity. Pennsylvania clearly stood out as an outlier in terms of the average number of bills legislators co-sponsored, it does not necessarily stand out in terms of the number of co-sponsored bills passed.
