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Legislature by Lot

Author : John Gastil
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788736117
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Legislature by Lot written by John Gastil and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature chosen through “sortition”—the random selection of lay citizens. It’s a concept that has come to the attention of democratic reformers across the globe. Proposals for such bodies are being debated in Australia, Belgium, Iceland, the United Kingdom, and many other countries. Sortition promises to reduce corruption and create a truly representative legislature in one fell swoop. In Legislature by Lot, John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright make the case for pairing a sortition body with an elected chamber within a bicameral legislature. Gastil is a leading deliberative democracy scholar, and Wright a distinguished sociologist and editor of the Real Utopias series, of which this is a part. In this volume, they bring together critics and advocates of sortition who have studied ancient Athens, deliberative polling, political theory, social movements, and civic innovation. Without obscuring its limitations, the contributors offer a wide variety of ideas for how to implement sortition and examine its potential for reshaping modern politics. Legislature by Lot includes sixteen essays that respond to Gastil and Wright’s detailed proposal. Essays comparing sortition to contemporary reforms see it as a dramatic extension of deliberative “minipublics,” which gather random samples of citizens to weigh public policy dilemmas without being empowered to enact legislation. Another set of essays explores the democratic principles underlying sortition and elections and considers, for example, how a sortition body holds itself accountable to a public that did not elect it. The third set of essays considers alternative paths to democratic reform, which limit the powers of a sortition chamber or more quickly establish a pure sortition body. With contributions by Arash Abizadeh, Tom Arnold, Terrill Bouricius, Deven Burks, Lyn Carson, Dimitri Courant, Donatella della Porta, David M. Farrell, Andrea Felicetti, James S. Fishkin, Brett Hennig, Vincent Jacquet, Raphaël Kies, Tom Malleson, Jane Mansbridge, Christoph Niessen, David Owen, John Pitseys, Min Reuchamps, Yves Sintomer, Graham Smith, Jane Suiter, and Pierre-Étienne Vandamme.

Legislative Index and Table of Sections Affected

Author : California. Legislative Counsel Bureau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislative Index and Table of Sections Affected written by California. Legislative Counsel Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wisconsin Blue Book

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Publisher : Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Wisconsin Blue Book written by and published by Legislative Reference Bureau. This book was released on 1909 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia

Author : West Virginia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia written by West Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oregon Blue Book

Author : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Oregon Blue Book written by Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

State Legislatures Today

Author : Peverill Squire
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538123371
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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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 281 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. The book examines state legislatures and state lawmakers, putting them in historical context, showing how they have evolved over the years, and differentiating them from Congress. It covers state legislative elections (including the impact of redistricting, candidate recruitment, etc.), the changing job description of state legislators, legislatures as organizations, the process by which legislation gets produced, and the influences upon legislators.

A Citizen Legislature

Author : Ernest Callenbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Citizen Legislature written by Ernest Callenbach and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West Virginia Blue Book

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book West Virginia Blue Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Minnesota Legislative Manual

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Minnesota Legislative Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heavy Lifting

Author : Alan Rosenthal
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Lifting written by Alan Rosenthal and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2004-07-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes for a “good” legislature? In Heavy Lifting, Alan Rosenthal traveled to five states, interviewing and shadowing legislators to find out the answer. Through this engaging narrative, the author first establishes the most important aspects of American state legislatures--what they are and how they do their jobs--and then graduates to the book’s central thesis: Rosenthal argues that, on the whole, the American legislature must be evaluated on the basis of its processes, not its products. He breaks down the legislative process into three principal functions: representing, lawmaking, and balancing the executive, and covers each in turn in the remainder of the book.

Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures

Author : Michael J. Dubin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476607761
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures written by Michael J. Dubin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, America's national elections have become focused almost exclusively on Democrats and Republicans; other parties exist but rarely rise to prominence. Elections at the state level, on the other hand, offer a livelier history, with successful candidates from political parties of all stripe, including Free Soil, Abolitionist, Anti-Monopoly, Farmers Alliance, War Democrat, Anti-Masonic, Socialist, and many more. This book lists the party affiliation of state legislatures beginning in 1796 through the elections of 2006. Information on each state includes a summary of how its electoral process developed, including the origins and stipulations of each state's constitution, the terms and size of the legislature, and other details pertaining to the history of the state's legislative branch. Each state's chapter closes with a list of sources. In all, the book documents over 100 different party affiliations.

On Legislatures

Author : Gerhard Loewenberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317255151
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book On Legislatures written by Gerhard Loewenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Legislatures looks at why people support their individual representatives but continue to criticise the legislative system at every opportunity. Although legislatures exist in every political system and are meant to represent the people, they are generally disparaged because they appear both unrepresentative and indecisive. Gerhard Loewenberg explains this puzzling contradiction by examining what representation means and what it takes for a large number of equally representative members to reach decisions. It also describes the methods for studying legislatures that have been developed in the social sciences in the last half century and shows their importance in democratic societies throughout the world. On Legislatures gets to the heart of the current disconnect between legislatures and the public they are supposed to represent.

Constitution of the State of Maine

Author : Maine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Constitution of the State of Maine written by Maine and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parliamentary Roles in Modern Legislatures

Author : Magnus Blomgren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136456414
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Roles in Modern Legislatures written by Magnus Blomgren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the most influential authors on role research and legislative studies to examine the different roles that MPs are playing in modern-day legislatures. It provides a comprehensive and critical overview of current research on legislative roles, summarises previous research, presents a large variety of methodological approaches and also explores the latest developing approaches to role theory. The concept of political roles has become increasingly relevant for understanding contemporary political systems. Parliamentary, legislative and representative roles are professional roles that provide a way of connecting the individual legislator to their institution that can also explain a legislator’s attitude and behaviour. Drawing upon case studies with as much as 40 years of data that include Germany, the Netherlands, UK, Austria, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand and the European Parliament, this book examines the link between representative roles, different institutional settings and parliamentary behaviour. It argues that the roles MPs play depend of who they think they should represent; between their voters, their party, the people of their country and also themselves, conflicts of loyalty can occur. This book provides a framework to analyse MPs’ choices by searching both the reasons for their views about representation, and the consequences of those views in parliament. Parliamentary Roles in Modern Legislatures will be of strong interest to students and scholars of government, legislative studies, political parties, comparative politics, political sociology and deliberative democracy.

Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress

Author : Craig Volden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761522
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress written by Craig Volden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

The California Legislature and Its Legislative Process

Author : CHRIS. MICHELI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781531020392
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The California Legislature and Its Legislative Process written by CHRIS. MICHELI and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legislatures and the Budget Process

Author : J. Wehner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230281575
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Legislatures and the Budget Process written by J. Wehner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of legislatures in the budget process? Do powerful assemblies give rise to pro-spending bias? This survey of legislative budgeting tackles these questions using cross-national data and case studies. It highlights the tension between legislative authority and prudent fiscal policy, exploring strategies for reconciliation.