Download or read book American State Legislatures in Mid twentieth Century written by National Legislative Conference. Committee on Legislative Processes and Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American State Legislatures in Mid twentieht Century written by National Legislative Conference. Committee on Legislative Process and Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Representative Democracy written by Ballard C. Campbell and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of an immensely powerful federal government in the twentieth century has tended to obscure the importance of state and local government in American history. Yet government at these lesser levels had the most direct and continuous effect on the lives of ordinary citizens. Through an analysis of late-nineteenth-century state legislatures in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin,Ballard Campbell has written what one expert has called "the best book on legislative politics, past or present." The period he examines was one of rapid change and great challenge. Urbanization, industrialization, and increasing national integration forced innumerable difficult and important decisions on state legislators. Campbell is sensitive to these stresses on law-making, and skillfully analyzes the interplay between personal and constituent factors that affected lawmakers. The author differentiates clearly between local and general aspects of state policymaking, giving full consideration to its more subjective and idiosyncratic elements. His comparison of partisan, economic, urban, ethnocultural, and regional influences on legislative behavior will serve as a model for all future studies. By closely examining the substantive dimension of the governmental process and its relation to mass politics, Representative Democracy advances "the new political history." Campbell's discussion of legislative composition and procedure, the content and context of contested issues, and responses to these issues challenges numerous stereotypes about American state legislatures.
Download or read book Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy written by Erik J. Engstrom and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nation’s founding, the strategic manipulation of congressional districts has influenced American politics and public policy
Download or read book The Evolution of American Legislatures written by Peverill Squire and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The institutional development of American legislatures, beginning with the first colonial assembly of 1619, has been marked by continuity as well as change. Peverill Squire draws upon a wealth of primary sources to document this institutional history. Beginning with the ways in which colonial assemblies followed the precedents of British institutions, Squire traces the fundamental ways they evolved to become distinct. He next charts the formation of the first state legislatures and the Constitutional Congress, describes the creation of territorial and new state legislatures, and examines the institutionalization of state legislatures in the nineteenth century and their professionalization since 1900. With his conclusion, Squire discusses the historical trajectory of American legislatures and suggests how they might further develop over the coming decades. While Squire's approach will appeal to historians, his focus on the evolution of rules, procedures, and standing committee systems, as well as member salaries, legislative sessions, staff, and facilities, will be valuable to political scientists and legislative scholars.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development written by Richard M. Valelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American politics, APD prizes analytical rigor, data collection, the development and testing of theory, and the generation of provocative hypotheses. Much APD scholarship indeed overlaps with the American politics subfield and its many well developed literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of (in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and income, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and processes evolve over time - and whether (and how) they alter, compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena that appear new or surprising prefigured in ways that an APD approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the evolution of American politics unlock its significance? Featuring contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American political development.
Download or read book Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism written by Thad Kousser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how legislature rules affect the behavior of its members and policies.
Download or read book Biennial Report to the General Assembly written by Indiana. General Assembly. Legislative Advisory Commission and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A More Perfect Union written by and published by National Archives & Records Administration. This book was released on 1986 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published : Washington, D.C. : National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1978.
Download or read book The Power of American Governors written by Thad Kousser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governors can be powerful actors in the lawmaking process, but what they're bargaining over shapes their strategy and effectiveness.
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Download or read book Organization of Congress written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organization of Congress written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Organization of the Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Process in Canada written by J.H. Aitchison and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1963-12-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of the late R. MacGregor Dawson on political thought in Canada is still with us and will, indeed, be with us for a long time to come. It is fitting therefore that a book should be conceived in his honour and that this book should reflect the high qualities of analysis and writing that he inspired in his many students. All the contributors to this volume, except Professor Clokie, who is Dawson’s generation, were his students in Saskatchewan or Toronto; all provide articles of interest and importance for a most useful volume on the political process in Canada. There are eleven essays, covering many aspects of Canadian political life. From a historical study of the federal government’s relations with the press, we move to consideration of the early ballot and the “swings” in federal elections. The next four essays are devoted to various topics connected with the general theme of political parties, and the next three to some problems of federation, including an account of the federal government’s administration of the North. Professor Clokie’s contribution, “Political Retrospect,” provides a suitable closing chapter.
Download or read book State Legislatures Today written by Peverill Squire and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and provocative introduction to state legislative politics, State Legislatures Today is designed as a supplement for state and local government courses and upper level courses on legislative politics.
Download or read book Biennial Report written by New Mexico. Legislature. Finance Committee and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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