Fig 1.
Conceptual model of early childhood legislative success.
Fig 2.
Analytic samples of the study.
Fig 3.
ECE bills deliberated by state (2015-2018).
Table 1.
Variables used in our analysis classified into outcomes, predictors, and controls and followed by their description and range of values they attain.
Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of key variables used in our analysis.
Fig 4.
Comparison of model fit of LDA with different number of topics.
Fig 5.
Six topics discovered through LDA with 50 highest frequency words.
Table 3.
Models predicting bill passage using LDA for topic classification with different numbers of topics.
Fig 6.
Bivariate association between ‘topics’ (bill content) and the odds of the bill being adopted.
Table 4.
Final model results for RQ2 and RQ3.
Fig 7.
Legislative effectiveness moderated the relationship between the bill’s content and its legislative outcome.
Scales indicate that for a hypothetical bill with its entire content focused on ChildCare, for example, a highly effective sponsor who successfully passed 4 bills would tip the balance in favor of passage (right).
Fig 8.
Moderating effect of legislative effectiveness on the association between the proportional coverage of a policy priority and the probability of bill passage.