Download or read book Players Politics and Turf of the 103rd Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Players Politics and Turf of the 103rd Congress written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Majority Or Old Minority written by Nicol C. Rae and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of original essays by leading congressional scholars explores the impact of the Republican majority on Congress with attention to the history of the institution and party characteristics present and future. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Download or read book Players Politics and Turf of the 104th Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Difference Women Make written by Michele L. Swers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there were more women in Congress? Providing the first comprehensive study of the policy activity of male and female legislators at the federal level, Michele L. Swers persuasively demonstrates that, even though representatives often vote a party line, their gender is politically significant and does indeed influence policy making. Swers combines quantitative analyses of bills with interviews with legislators and their staff to compare legislative activity on women's issues by male and female members of the House of Representatives during the 103rd (1993-94) and 104th (1995-96) Congresses. Tracking representatives' commitment to women's issues throughout the legislative process, from the introduction of bills through committee consideration to final floor votes, Swers examines how the prevailing political context and members' positions within Congress affect whether and how aggressively they pursue women's issues. Anyone studying congressional behavior, the role of women, or the representation of social identities in Congress will benefit from Swers's balanced and nuanced analysis.
Download or read book Players Politics and Turf written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Players Politics and Turf of the Congress written by Congressional Quarterly, inc and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Players Politics and Turf of the 105th Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Workways of Governance written by Roger H. Davidson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publication The war on terrorism has raised profound questions of domestic governance—not primarily about power or policy, but about the capacities of government agencies, their personnel, procedures, work habits and styles, and ability to interface with each other. These are the "workways of governance." As the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, made very clear, shortcomings and defects in the workways of governance are all too often manifested only in times of crisis or scandal—after the damage is done. How much better it would be to design for government a version of the periodic physical examination, where tests of various types, together with the physician's observations and the patient's own testimony, combine to help define the patient's status and prospects. The Workways of Governance project, sponsored by the Governance Institute, was begun in 1997 in response to a growing concern that institutions of national government have evolved into structures and developed procedures and customs that constrain their workers and hamper their collective effectiveness. A unique feature of the project is the development of a periodic review of the quality of institutional life and work in government. Guidelines for evaluating and monitoring governmental entities will be established, and implemented annually or biennially. The resulting reports consist of both objectively measured data and subjective evaluation, with the ultimate aim of generating positive change toward improving the capacity of government. In this first volume of analysis arising from the Workways of Governance project, contributors apply these general guidelines to evaluate the leading institutions of the federal government, as listed in the first three articles of the Constitution: the House of Representatives, the Senate, the presidency (focusing on White House organization and staffing), the executive branch (focusing on the civil service), and the federal judiciary.
Download or read book Common Ground written by John Russell Baughman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Ground shows that while committees in the House of Representatives face overlapping and ambiguous jurisdictions on issues ranging from health care reform to homeland security, the problem of turf wars is overstated as panels are able to bargain and cooperate successfully matters of shared interest.
Download or read book Congress and Its Members written by Roger H. Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Representation of Minority Groups in the U S written by Charles Menifield and published by Austin & Winfield Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen American scholars contributed 15 chapters to this volume examining the changes in the descriptive and substantive representation of women, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and American Indians in the U.S. political system from 1965 to the present. The text is divided into two parts: minority representation in Congress, and in state and local governments. Coverage includes demographic and behavioral facts about minority groups in the political system; discussions of partisanship, ideology, policy impact, role orientations, leadership, committee assignment, bill cosponsorship, and voting behavior; and the role and affect of redistricting and affirmative action on representation. The binding is substandard: a paperbound book pasted into a hard case. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Funding Public Schools written by Kenneth K. Wong and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the fundamental role of politics in funding our public schools and fills a conceptual imbalance in the current literature in school finance and educational policy. Unlike those who are primarily concerned about cost efficiency, Kenneth Wong specifies how resources are allocated for what purposes at different levels of the government. In contrast to those who focus on litigation as a way to reduce funding gaps, he underscores institutional stalemate and the lack of political will to act as important factors that affect legislative deadlock in school finance reform. Wong defines how politics has sustained various types of "rules" that affect the allocation of resources at the federal, state, and local level. While these rules have been remarkably stable over the past twenty to thirty years, they have often worked at cross-purposes by fragmenting policy and constraining the education process at schools with the greatest needs. Wong's examination is shaped by several questions. How do these rules come about? What role does politics play in retention of the rules? Do the federal, state, and local governments espouse different policies? In what ways do these policies operate at cross-purposes? How do they affect educational opportunities? Do the policies cohere in ways that promote better and more equitable student outcomes? Wong concludes that the five types of entrenched rules for resource allocation are rooted in existing governance arrangements and seemingly impervious to partisan shifts, interest group pressures, and constitutional challenge. And because these rules foster policy fragmentation and embody initiatives out of step with the performance-based reform agenda of the 1990s, the outlook for positive change in public education is uncertain unless fairly radical approaches are employed. Wong also analyzes four allocative reform models, two based on the assumption that existing political structures are unlikely to change and two that seek to empower actors at the school level. The two models for systemwide restructuring, aimed at intergovernmental coordination and/or integrated governance, would seek to clarify responsibilities for public education among federal, state, and local authorities-above all, integrating political and educational accountability. The other two models identified by Wong shift control from state and district to the school, one based on local leadership and the other based on market forces. In discussing the guiding principles of the four models, Wong takes care to identify both the potential and limitations of each. Written with a broad policy audience in mind, Wong's book should appeal to professionals interested in the politics of educational reform and to teachers of courses dealing with educational policy and administration and intergovernmental relations.
Download or read book CQ Log for Editors written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congress and US China Policy 1989 1999 written by Jian Yang and published by Nova Biomedical Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to analyse the influence of domestic politics on congressional intervention in US policy towards China with special reference to three factors which might loosely be termed structural factors: partisanship, constituency and committees. The analysis is conducted by examining two issues: China's most-favoured-nation (MFN) status and the Taiwan issue during the Republican George Bush administration (1989-1992) and most of the Democratic Bill Clinton administration (1993-1999). Contents: Preface; Abbreviations; Committee Assignments; Introduction; A Theoretical Framework; A History and Literature Review; Congress Charges: MFN under Bush; Congress Retreats: MFN under Clinton; Congress Surprised: Taiwan Policy under Bush; Congress Triumphant: Taiwan Policy under Clinton; Congressional Behaviour: Structural Explanations; The Role of Congress: Beyond the Structural Explanations; Conclusion; Bibliography.
Download or read book CQ Weekly Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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