John Wilkerson
Professor, Department of Political Science
Data science, Politics and elections
Expertise: Legislative organization and decision-making, health politics, comparative legislative studies
John Wilkerson also directs the UW Center for American Politics and Public Policy.
Wilkerson created Legislative Explorer, a tool that uses big data to follow every bill and resolution introduced in Congress since 1973 — 250,000 and counting. It notes each time a bill or resolution advances from one stage of the process to the next, in or out of committee or moves to the floor for consideration, totaling about 750,000 such movements. He’s also done the same for the Washington State Legislature.
