Download or read book Party Government written by Elmer Eric Schattschneider and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1977-04-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Party Decision and Government Action written by Liberal Party of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1968* with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Party Government written by E. Schattschneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we need to know about political parties in order to understand them? In his classic study E. E. Schattschneider delineates six crucial points: A political party is an organized attempt to get control of the government. Parties live in a highly competitive world. The major parties manage to maintain their supremacy over the minor parties. The internal processes of the parties have not generally received the attention they deserve in treatises on American politics. The party is a process that has grown up about elections. And perhaps most important of all is the distribution of power within the party organization. But Party Government is not just about political parties. At its heart is the theory and practice of modern democracy, and it is the most cited, controversial, and probably single most influential study of political parties ever written, Schattschneider questions the purpose of government, who rules, and how government should be organized consistent with its fundamental purpose, which are the enduring fault lines of American democracy. He takes the reader through a thorough and penetrating examination of political parties and the American government. Starting with a historical overview and defense of parties, Schattschneider offers a searing analysis of politics itself, with special focus on the number of interest groups both affecting and affected by government. He describes the various types of political organizations--major parties, pressure groups, and minor parties--and offers a study of the two-party character of the American system. Sidney A. Pearson, Jr. offers a strikingly original new introduction about E. E. Schattschneider and his contribution to political science. Gracefully and wittily written, Party Government is mandatory reading for students and scholars of political science, government, and American political theory.
Download or read book Visions and Realities of Party Government written by Francis G. Castles and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Super PACs written by Louise I. Gerdes and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of Citizens United by the Supreme Court in 2010 sparked a renewed debate about campaign spending by large political action committees, or Super PACs. Its ruling said that it is okay for corporations and labor unions to spend as much as they want in advertising and other methods to convince people to vote for or against a candidate. This book provides a wide range of opinions on the issue. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.
Download or read book Party Decisions and Government Action written by Liberal Party of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Party Discipline written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover "Party Discipline," an insightful exploration of how cohesion within political parties shapes governance globally. This enlightening volume from the "Political Science" series highlights the importance of understanding party discipline for professionals, students, and political enthusiasts. 1: Party Discipline: Unveils mechanisms by which parties maintain unity and enforce decision-making, vital for effective governance. 2: Political Party: Explores foundational structures and roles of parties, showing how organization impacts legislative outcomes. 3: Whip (Politics): Investigates party whips' role in ensuring adherence to positions, crucial for maintaining discipline. 4: Caucus: Analyzes how party caucuses shape legislative strategies and promote cohesion among lawmakers. 5: Crossing the Floor: Examines implications of lawmakers switching parties, highlighting challenges to discipline and political stability. 6: Cabinet Collective Responsibility: Explores collective ministerial accountability, showcasing its role in enforcing unity in government. 7: Minority Leader: Discusses opposition leaders' strategic roles in upholding discipline amidst scrutiny and adversarial politics. 8: Parliamentary Group: Delves into parliamentary group functions, essential for advancing agendas and maintaining cohesion. 9: Coattail Effect: Explores how leaders' electoral successes influence down-ballot candidates, impacting discipline and strategy. 10: Party Leader: Profiles leaders' roles in enforcing discipline, shaping agendas, and navigating interparty dynamics. 11: Executive (Government): Analyzes the executive branch's enforcement of discipline through policy implementation and leadership. 12: People's Action Party: Case study on Singapore's political party, illustrating discipline strategies in a dominant-party system. 13: Primary Election: Examines primary elections' role in selecting candidates, impacting cohesion and voter engagement. 14: Presidential System: Contrasts party discipline dynamics in presidential versus parliamentary systems. 15: Backbencher: Explores backbench legislators' roles in upholding or challenging discipline within legislatures. 16: Semi-Presidential Republic: Analyzes discipline within semi-presidential systems, highlighting unique challenges. 17: List of Countries by System of Government: Provides a comparative overview of discipline across governmental structures worldwide. 18: Crossbencher: Discusses independent legislators' roles and their impact on party discipline. 19: Non-Partisan Democracy: Examines governance models with reduced party discipline and implications for democracy. 20: Indirect Election: Explores indirect election methods and their effects on party discipline in democracies. 21: Independent Politician: Profiles independents and their influence on party dynamics, reflecting on challenges to discipline.
Download or read book United States Government Presidential Election Edition written by Richard C. Remy and published by McGraw-Hill/Glencoe. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My goal in writing this book is to help you develop the knowledge, skills, and ideals you need to protect your own freedom; to keep democracy alive in the United States. In the pages that follow you will find information to help you better understand how the machinery of representative government works and why it sometimes does not work. You will have the chance to develop skills for making sound judgments about public policy and for taking part in politics. And you will read about key principles of democracy such as majority rule with minority rights, free elections, and individual liberty. - A letter to students.
Download or read book The Politics of American Discontent written by Gordon S. Black and published by . This book was released on 1994-03-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans' dissatisfaction with government is at an all-time high. Drawing on an inside track on Washington, leading political pollster Gordon Black paints a compelling portrait of a government out of control and provides persuasive evidence that a new party could get it back on track. 50-60 charts/graphs/tables.
Download or read book An Economic Theory of Government Decision making in a Democracy written by Anthony Downs and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy written by Anthony Downs and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parties and Elections in an Anti party Age written by Jeff Fishel and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Majority Rule vs Individual Rights written by Erika Meersman and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. government is commonly characterized as being comprised of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. These two parties have differing views of how the government should be run, therefore creating a divide in legislative processes. Majority rule refers to a democracy being governed by decisions upon which a greater portion of people has agreed. However, U.S. citizens have basic and inalienable rights that can't be violated by the government. This book explores these basic and inalienable rights in relation to majority rule, and provides insight to how these concepts are laid out in the U.S. Constitution.
Download or read book Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government written by Shaun Bowler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together empirical studies of the internal cohesiveness of political party groups in European parliaments and the leadership behavior that leads to disciplined parties in parliament, in sections on theories and definitions, the "Westminster Model," established continental European systems, newly emerging systems, and parliamentary discipline and coalition governments. Chapters originated as papers presented at a spring 1995 workshop held in Bordeaux, France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Party Responsibility in Government Terminations written by Ioannis Loukas Vassiliadis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The lifecycle of governments in parliamentary democracies has been in the forefront of comparative political research for more than half a century. While the empirical analyses have, up to this day, been performed with the individual cabinet as the unit of analysis, the decision to maintain or dissolve the government ultimately rests with the participating parties. This dissertation aims to contribute to the aforementioned literature by directly focusing on political parties as the main decision-making unit in the setting of coalition governments. The decision of political parties to leave the cabinet - and thus cause the termination of the government - is a potentially costly public action, one that strategic parties would not take lightly. Here, I examine potential reasons that account for the variation in parties' decisions to terminate the coalition governments in which they participate. In particular, I explore how the calculations of coalition partners are influenced by both party- and cabinet-specific factors, including structural characteristics of parties via-a-vis the rest of the government and the parliament, the likely political developments that a government termination engenders, and a changing political context. The analysis builds on a novel classification of government terminations that I put forth in Chapter 1. In particular, I introduce a set of systematic criteria intended to capture premature party departure from the cabinet. This allows a finer identification of the actors responsible for each government termination. This classification is then applied to a party-level dataset that contains information on all governments and their participating parties in 18 European countries in the period 1945-2014. In the first Chapter, I identify what party attributes are correlated with a higher ex ante probability of leaving the government, and explore whether ideological, electoral, or office-related incentives are associated with this phenomenon. I find that ideological conflict within the cabinet and electoral competition from the opposition are significant predictors of a political party's decision to leave the cabinet. On the contrary, there is only limited support for the hypothesis that parties leave in order to pursue better options by participating in a different government. Specifically, parties' coalition potential, as measured by their size and ideological placement in the parliament, does not statistically significantly increase the probability that the party terminates the government. This analysis allows for, and is robust to, the presence of cabinet-level unobserved heterogeneity. These findings are consistent with the notion that formateurs may not be maximizing the durability of coalitions, and that political parties may be bargaining in a non-continuous agreement space. Parties' calculations on exiting the government presumably depend on whether they expect a parliamentary dissolution and new elections to follow the termination of the government, or not. With this in mind, in the second Chapter, I offer an empirical account of parliamentary dissolutions and replacement governments using the conventional cabinet-level analysis. In particular, I examine the effects of different parliament-level factors that the existing literature has found to be conducive to dissolutions. The goal of this analysis is to derive unbiased estimates of the probability of a parliamentary dissolution following the termination of the government. This is a novel approach to an underexplored question, and provides substantive inferences independently of its larger role in this dissertation. These unbiased estimates can then be used to inform the analysis of individual party decision-making, by explicitly taking into account the possibility that a premature cabinet termination may lead to new elections or a replacement government. I show that the calling of new elections is correlated with premature government terminations, and that unless this correlation is accounted for, naive estimates of the probability of parliamentary dissolutions are biased due to sample selection. I find that time remaining until the next regularly-scheduled election is the most important predictor of parliamentary dissolution, while there is mixed support for explanations based on the complexity of the bargaining environment. Armed with the results of Chapter 2, I perform a more nuanced analysis of the decision of individual parties to leave the cabinet in Chapter 3, where I examine whether changes in the political and economic environment lead coalition partners to reconsider their participation in the government. Using changes in opinion polls and the state of the economy, I am able to quantify "critical events" and thus capture the dynamic context in which governments and parties operate. I combine these with unbiased estimates of the probability of new elections following the termination of the government, obtained in the previous chapter. By properly accounting for the different outcomes of government termination, I am able to adjudicate between "surfing" and "blame avoidance" incentives. The main results show that popularity surges can lead to government terminations, but are not sufficient to cause parliamentary dissolutions: to the extent that individual parties capitalize on their increased popularity, it is by negotiating better terms within the existing parliament. This reflects the fact that in multiparty settings, as the ones in this study, individual parties benefiting from improved polls can seldom convince their laggard counterparts to dissolve the parliament. Furthermore, I find that parties react to opportunistic incentives created by improvements in the state of the economy. Finally, I find that the effects of the different environmental changes are conditional on the likelihood of new elections, should the government terminate"--Pages xi-xiv.
Download or read book American Government 3e written by Glen Krutz and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & white print. American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of this textbook has been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from the fundamental principles of institutional design at the founding, to avenues of political participation, to thorough coverage of the political structures that constitute American government. The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications. The goal of each section is to enable students not just to recognize concepts, but to work with them in ways that will be useful in later courses, future careers, and as engaged citizens. In order to help students understand the ways that government, society, and individuals interconnect, the revision includes more examples and details regarding the lived experiences of diverse groups and communities within the United States. The authors and reviewers sought to strike a balance between confronting the negative and harmful elements of American government, history, and current events, while demonstrating progress in overcoming them. In doing so, the approach seeks to provide instructors with ample opportunities to open discussions, extend and update concepts, and drive deeper engagement.
