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Author : John E. Schwarz
Publisher : Hinsdale, Ill. : Dryden Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The United States Congress in Comparative Perspective written by John E. Schwarz and published by Hinsdale, Ill. : Dryden Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerhard Loewenberg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067909
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Legislatures written by Gerhard Loewenberg and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the implications of recent research on the U.S. Congress for legislative research outside the United States
Author : Raymond A. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135907846
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The American Anomaly written by Raymond A. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Anomaly systematically analyzes and explains the U.S. political system by way of comparison with other countries, especially other industrialized democracies. It is organized into four distinct sections, respectively covering the constitutional order, governmental institutions, political participation, and public policymaking.
Author : Norman J. Ornstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Information, Resources and Legislative Decision-making written by Norman J. Ornstein and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Dennis B. Hale
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412839505
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The United States Congress [proceedings of the symposium] written by Dennis B. Hale and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this remarkable volume on the development and current status of the United States Congress use perspectives from history and comparative politics to study congressional law making, congressional debate, public support, the absence of leaders in congress, congressional oversight of administration, congress and public finance, and corruption. The Essays are based on the Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Symposium on the U.S. Congress held at Boston College in 1981. The United States Congress gives us a portrait of the national legislature at a critical moment in its history, and seeks to provide timely answers to fundamental questions: What is deliberation and how can Congress become a more deliberative institution? How have congressional elections changed? Has the relationship between voters and congressmen gone sour? Can Congress write a budget, direct the federal bureaucracy, or devise a sensible foreign policy? How has the nature of leadership within the Congress changed in recent years? And, above all, what is the Congress of the United States supposed to be and to do?
Author : Timothy J. Power
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822972980
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Exporting Congress? written by Timothy J. Power and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Congress is often viewed as the world's most powerful national legislature. To what extent does it serve as a model for other legislative assemblies around the globe? In Exporting Congress? distinguished scholars of comparative legislatures analyze how Congress has influenced elected assemblies in both advanced and transitional democracies. They reveal the barriers to legislative diffusion, the conditions that favor Congress as a model, and the rival institutional influences on legislative development around the world. Exporting Congress? examines the conditions for the diffusion, selective imitation, and contingent utility of congressional institutions and practices in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the European Parliament, and the new democracies in Latin America and Eastern Europe. These scholars find that diffusion is highly sensitive to history, geography, and other contextual factors, especially the structure of political institutions and the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches. Editors Timothy Power and Nicol Rae place the volume's empirical findings in theoretical, comparative, and historical perspective, and establish a dialogue between the separate subfields of congressional studies and comparative legislatures through the concept of legislative diffusion.
Author : David M. Olson
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Legislative Process written by David M. Olson and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anand Menon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191516201
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Comparative Federalism written by Anand Menon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Convention on the Future of Europe served to galvanize debate about the nature and future developmental trajectory of the European Union. More specifically, it engendered discussion over the degree to which the process resembled that which had occurred in Philadelphia some two hundred years earlier, and, more broadly, over the extent to which the European Union does, or should, resemble the United States. Partly as a consequence of such debates, comparative federalism is now an important topic, with scholarly work comparing the US and EU proliferating rapidly. The present volume seeks to build on and contribute to this growing literature, by developing a systematic comparison of the institutions, policies and developmental patterns of the European Union and the United States.
Author : Robert Elgie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191522538
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Divided Government in Comparative Perspective written by Robert Elgie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-11-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided government occurs when the executive fails to enjoy majority support in at least one working house of the legislature. To date, the study of divided government has focused almost exclusively on the United States. However, divided government occurs much more widely. It occurs in other presidential systems. Moreover, it is also the equivalent of minority government in parliamentary regimes and cohabitation in French-style semi-presidential systems. This book examines the frequency, causes and management of divided government in comparative context, identifying the similarities and differences between the various experiences of this increasingly frequent form of government. The countries studied include Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Poland, and the US.
Author : Eric Schickler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191628255
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress written by Eric Schickler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of government has placed research on Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics. Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on understanding Congress, both as a lawmaking and a representative institution. The purpose of this volume is to take stock of this impressive and diverse literature, identifying areas of accomplishment and promising directions for future work. The editors have commissioned 37 chapters by leading scholars in the field, each chapter critically engages the scholarship focusing on a particular aspect of congressional politics, including the institution's responsiveness to the American public, its procedures and capacities for policymaking, its internal procedures and development, relationships between the branches of government, and the scholarly methodologies for approaching these topics. The Handbook also includes chapters addressing timely questions, including partisan polarization, congressional war powers, and the supermajoritarian procedures of the contemporary Senate. Beyond simply bringing readers up to speed on the current state of research, the volume offers critical assessments of how each literature has progressed - or failed to progress - in recent decades. The chapters identify the major questions posed by each line of research and assess the degree to which the answers developed in the literature are persuasive. The goal is not simply to tell us where we have been as a field, but to set an agenda for research on Congress for the next decade. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III
Author : Charles W. Dunn
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Government in Comparative Perspective written by Charles W. Dunn and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only American Government text to take a comparative approach, Dunn and Slann's text doesn't simply offer comparative material in boxed features, but integrates it throughout the text to help students gain a deeper and more complete vision of our government by comparing and contrasting it to the governments of other nations. The new edition helps students learn what makes American government and politics distinctive and encourages them to see why it has endured for over 200 years. By presenting American government within a comprehensive comparative and global framework, the book exposes students to global issues and helps them to grow in cross-cultural understanding, while at the same time giving them a solid foundation in American government and politics.
Author : Desmond King
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801893240
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Democratization in America written by Desmond King and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume examine democracy’s development in the United States, demonstrating how that process has shaped—and continues to shape—the American political system. Scholars of American politics commonly describe the political development of the United States as exceptional and distinct from that of other advanced industrial democracies. They point to the United States as the longest-lived and most stable liberal democracy in history. What they often fail to mention, though, is that it took considerable time to extend democracy throughout the country. The contributors to this volume suggest that it is intellectually fruitful to consider the U.S. case in comparison to other countries. They argue that the development of democracy is ongoing in America; that even with a written constitution grounded in liberal democracy, the meaning and significance of U.S. democracy are still evolving. This volume shows that democratization and the pursuit of democracy are processes affected by multiple and continuing challenges—including such issues as citizenship, race, institution building, and political movements—as patterns and practices of politics and governance continue to change. This innovative approach contributes significantly to comparative democratization studies, a field normally confined to Latin America and former communist countries. The U.S. case is a unique reference point for students of American political development and comparative democratization.
Author : John V. Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book How Our Laws are Made written by John V. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L. Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210701
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Different Democracy written by Steven L. Taylor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democratic performance. This essential text approaches the following institutions from a political engineering point of view: constitutions, electoral systems, and political parties, as well as legislative, executive, and judicial power. The text looks at democracies from around the world over a two-decade time frame. The result is not only a fresh view of the much-discussed theme of American exceptionalism but also an innovative approach to comparative politics that treats the United States as but one case among many. An ideal textbook for both American and comparative politics courses.
Author : Anne Marie Cammisa
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739186604
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Path of American Public Policy written by Anne Marie Cammisa and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among all the worlds’ democracies, the American system of government is perhaps the most self-conscious about preventing majority tyranny. The American constitutional system is predicated on an inherent ideational and institutional tension dating back to the foundation of the nation in the eighteenth century, which constrains innovative policy development. Namely, the framers designed a system that simultaneously seeks to protect the rights of the minority out of power and provide for majority rule. These opposing goals are based on the idea that limiting governmental power will guarantee individual liberty. The Path of American Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives asks how this foundational tension might limit the range of options available to American policy makers. What does the resistance to change in Washington teach us about the American system of checks and balances? Why is it so difficult (though not impossible) to make sweeping policy changes in the United States? How could things be different? What would be the implications for policy formation if the United States adopted a British-style parliamentary system? To examine these questions, this book gives an example of when comprehensive change failed (the 1994 Contract with America) and when it succeeded (the 2010 Affordable Care Act). A comparison of the two cases sheds light on how and why Obama’s health care was shepherded to law under Nancy Pelosi, while Newt Gingrich was less successful with the Contract with America. The contrast between the two cases highlights the balance between majority rule and minority rights, and how the foundational tension constrains public-policy formation. While 2010 illustrates an exception to the rule about comprehensive policy change in the United States, the 1994 is an apt example of how our system of checks and balances usually works to stymie expansive, far-reaching legislative initiatives.
Author : John Wenzel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Comparative View of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of the United States, France, England, and Germany written by John Wenzel and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irina Khmelko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000766500
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Legislative Decline in the 21st Century written by Irina Khmelko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irina Khmelko, Frederick Stapenhurst, and Michael L. Mezey have assembled an authoritative guide to the declining institutional capacities of legislatures around the world. Case studies represent a diverse sample of countries, ranging from newer democracies emerging from the post-communist world to more established but at times fragile democracies in Asia. Although largely focused on newer democratic systems, readers will be able to identify key factors that explain the general global trend toward the empowerment of executives at the expense of national legislatures. The cases, although different from one another, identify several factors that have explained the erosion of legislative power, including historical legacies, institutional design, economic factors, external factors, political polarization, personalization of politics, and the rise of populism. Original data and the presentation of testable theoretical propositions about the growing imbalance between executives and national legislatures moves the field in a promising new direction. Legislative Decline in the 21st Century will be of interest to students and scholars of Legislative Studies and Comparative Politics. Lessons drawn from these case studies will allow policy makers to explore new solutions that can lead to the improved quality of democracy in countries around the world.
