Download or read book Why Did Republican Porkbusters Fail in the 104th Congress written by Gregory Lowell Bovitz and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broken Branch written by Thomas E. Mann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional. Mann and Ornstein, two of the nations most renowned and judicious scholars of government and politics, bring to light the historical roots of Congress's current maladies, examining 40 years of uninterrupted Democratic control of the House and the stunning midterm election victory of 1994 that propelled Republicans into the majority in both House and Senate. The byproduct of that long and grueling but ultimately successful Republican campaign, the authors reveal, was a weakened institution bitterly divided between the parties. They highlight the dramatic shift in Congress from a highly decentralized, committee-based institution into a much more regimented one in which party increasingly trumps committee. The resultant changes in the policy process--the demise of regular order, the decline of deliberation, and the weakening of our system of checks and balances--have all compromised the role of Congress in the American Constitutional system. Indeed, Speaker Dennis Hastert has unabashedly stated that his primary responsibility is to pass the president's legislative program--identifying himself more as a lieutenant of the president than a steward of the house. From tax cuts to the war against Saddam Hussein to a Medicare prescription drug benefit, the legislative process has been bent to serve immediate presidential interests and have often resulted in poorly crafted and stealthily passed laws. Strong majority leadership in Congress, the authors conclude, led not to a vigorous exertion of congressional authority but to a general passivity in the face of executive power. A vivid portrait of an institution that has fallen far from the aspirations of our Founding Fathers, The Broken Branch highlights the costs of a malfunctioning Congress to national policymaking, and outlines what must be done to repair the damage.
Download or read book Porkbusters in Congress written by Gregory Lowell Bovitz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Congressional Quarterly s Politics in America written by Philip D. Duncan and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best and first available guide to the members of the newly elected Congress is "Politics in America". Readers will discover "who's who" on Capitol Hill, thanks to profiles of the newly elected as well as incumbents. Key facts are highlighted--biographical data, committee assignments, election results, votes on key issues, and more. The CD-ROM includes all member information, photos, and maps from the book. 600 photos. 75 illustrations.
Download or read book Open Government written by Daniel Lathrop and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation. Contributions and topics include: Beth Simone Noveck, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for open government, "The Single Point of Failure" Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, "All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data" Aaron Swartz, cofounder of reddit.com, OpenLibrary.org, and BoldProgressives.org, "When Is Transparency Useful?" Ellen S. Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, "Disrupting Washington's Golden Rule" Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, "By the People" Douglas Schuler, president of the Public Sphere Project, "Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence" Howard Dierking, program manager on Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet Web platform team, "Engineering Good Government" Matthew Burton, Web entrepreneur and former intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, "A Peace Corps for Programmers" Gary D. Bass and Sean Moulton, OMB Watch, "Bringing the Web 2.0 Revolution to Government" Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, "Defining Government 2.0: Lessons Learned from the Success of Computer Platforms" Open Government editors: Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post Intelligencer who's covered politics in Washington state, Iowa, Florida, and Washington D.C. He's a specialist in campaign finance and "computer-assisted reporting" -- the practice of using data analysis to report the news. Laurel Ruma is the Gov 2.0 Evangelist at O'Reilly Media. She is also co-chair for the Gov 2.0 Expo.
Download or read book Congressional Quarterly Almanac 1998 written by CQ Press and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics In America 1998 Hardbound Edition W CD written by Philip D. Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-27 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published every two years after the congressional elections, Congressional Quarterly's insider's guide profiles each of the 535 members of Congress--including the 91 freshmen. Each profile features unbiased perspectives on each lawmaker's hopes, concerns, and ambitions, as well as insight into their personalities, legislative priorities, personal style, reputation at home and on the Hill, and background information such as office addresses, committee assignments, election results, interest group ratings, demographic data on each district, and campaign finance figures. A CD-ROM version of the book is included. Paper edition (unseen), $96.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Item Veto Constitutional Amendment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greasing the Wheels written by Diana Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines pork barrel projects and their relation to broad-based national legislation.
Download or read book States Rights and the Union written by Forrest McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McDonald (history, U. of Alabama) explores the balance between general and local authority in government. Tracing the concept of states' rights from the Declaration of Independence to the end of Reconstruction, he illuminates the constitutional, political, and economic contexts in which the issues have evolved. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book American Government 1999 2000 written by Bruce Stinebrickner and published by McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes readers on a tour of the foundations, structures, processes and products of the American political system; in doing so, it provides an analysis and critique of democracy as a political model.
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Download or read book Funding Science in America written by James D. Savage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funding Science in America, first published in 1999, explores the pros and cons of the academic earmarking issue.
Download or read book Setting the Agenda written by Gary W. Cox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislative process.
Download or read book Information and Legislative Organization written by Keith Krehbiel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992-08-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVPresents an alternative informational theory of legislative politics to challenge the conventional view /div
Download or read book The Civic Web written by David M. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political web sites and e-mail lists were novelties in 1996. By 2000, they were a news trend. By 2004, they will be a part of every electoral and policy campaign. News-seekers, activists, and decision-makers increasingly turn to the Net as a matter of course. The Civic Web delineates the basic issues, opportunities, and dilemmas posed by the introduction of computer-networked communications into U.S. national politics. Leading scholars from several academic disciplines join pioneer practitioners of online advocacy, discussion, and law in considering how the Internet can host, and even advance, enlightened self-government by a free people in a constitutional republic. Visit our website for sample chapters!
