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Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew

Author : George Douglas Dion
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472022695
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew written by George Douglas Dion and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of filibusters in the U.S. Senate by small numbers of members to prevent legislative action apparently desired by a majority of the members--as evidenced by the battles over civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s--is legendary. Similar situations have existed in other legislative bodies over time. The fear that they will at some time be in the minority has inhibited actions by the majority groups to control the right of minority groups to block legislative action. And yet from time to time the majority in a legislative body has forced a change in the rules to control the rights of the minority. When does the majority seek to limit minority rights to obstruct legislation? Douglas Dion, in a unique study, develops a formal model to set out the conditions under which majorities will limit minority rights. He finds that when majorities are small, they will be more cohesive. This majority cohesion leads to minority obstruction, which in turn leads to majority efforts to force procedural change to control the ability of the minority to obstruct legislation. Dion then tests his findings in a rich consideration of historical cases from the nineteenth-century U.S. House of Representatives, the nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. Senate, the British House of Commons, and an account of the Austro-Hungarian Parliament written by Mark Twain. Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew is a work that combines formal analysis with extensive historical evidence to address an important problem in democratic theory. Specialists in legislative politics and American political development, as well as those more broadly interested in the relationship between democratic theory and institutional structure, will find the work of great interest. Douglas Dion is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan.

Contesting Democracy

Author : Byron E. Shafer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Democracy written by Byron E. Shafer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars provide a comprehensive history of two centuries of U.S. politics. Contributions from a who's who of political historians.

Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century

Author : Sunil Ahuja
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814209400
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century written by Sunil Ahuja and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress occupies a central place in the U.S. political system. Its reach into American society is vast and deep. Overtime, the issues it has confronted have increased in both quantity and complexity. At the beginning, Congress dealt with a handful of matters, whereas today it has its hands in every imaginable aspect of life. It has attempted to meet these challenges and has changed throughout the course of its history, prodded by factors both external and internal to the institution. The essays in this volume argue therefore that as society changed throughout the twentieth century, Congress responded to those changes.

The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies

Author : Shane Martin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191019062
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies written by Shane Martin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legislatures are political bodies essential to democracy and the rule of law. They present social scientists with numerous intriguing puzzles, with far-reaching implications for our understanding of political institutions. Why, and how, have these ancient assemblies, established in pre-democratic times, survived the transition to mass democracies? How have they adapted? How do they structure such processes as budgeting, legislation, and executive oversight? How do their members get selected, and what consequences flow from differences in these rules? What roles do committees and political parties play in contemporary legislatures? What functions do legislatures perform in autocratic, semi-democratic or recently democratized societies? What explains the similarities and differences in legislative rules, powers and recruitment? What are the policy and other consequences of variation in how legislatures are organized and function? The 33 chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by 47 of the most distinguished legislative scholars, provide a comprehensive and up-to-date description and assessment of the state of the art in legislative studies. Key themes explored include theoretical paradigms and methodological approaches to the study of legislatures, representation and legislative careers, internal organization, the role of parties within legislatures and the role of legislatures in policy making and accountability. The Handbook also explores the emergence of parliaments in historical and contemporary contexts, including new democracies and trans-national institutions.

The Legislative Branch

Author : Sarah A. Binder
Publisher : Institutions of American Democracy Series
ISBN 13 : 9780195309164
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Legislative Branch written by Sarah A. Binder and published by Institutions of American Democracy Series. This book was released on 2005 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains eighteen essays in which political scientists and scholars of public policy examine the performance of the U.S. Congress as a democratic institution, covering ideals and development, elections and representation, structures and processes, policy and performance, and assessments and prospects.

The Legislative Branch

Author : Paul J. Quirk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199883858
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Legislative Branch written by Paul J. Quirk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With the guidance of coeditors Paul J. Quirk and Sarah A. Binder, this collection of essays examines the role of the Legislature in American democracy and the dynamic between the other branches of government, and discusses possible measures for reform. The volume addresses questions such as: How does Congress serve the values of democracy and American constitutional principles? Which conceptions of those values does it implement, and which does it overlook or fail to realize? What are Congress's strengths and weaknesses in performing the tasks of democratic governance? What reforms, if any, are necessary to ensure the health and success of Congress as an institution of democracy in the future?

Devolution and Black State Legislators

Author : Tyson King-Meadows
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481921
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Devolution and Black State Legislators written by Tyson King-Meadows and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devolution and Black State Legislators examines whether black state legislators can produce qualitative gains in the substantive representation of black interests. Once a battle cry by southern conservatives, "new federalism" has shifted power from Washington to the respective state governments and, ironically, has done so as black state legislators grow in number. Tyson King-Meadows and Thomas F. Schaller look at the debates surrounding black political incorporation, the tradeoffs between substantive and descriptive representation, racial redistricting, and the impact of black legislators on state budgetary politics. They situate contemporary constraints on black state elites as the union of macro- and micro-level forces, which allows for a reconsideration of how the idiosyncrasies of political, economic, and geographic culture converge with the internal dynamics of state legislative processes to produce particular environments. Interviews with black legislators provide valuable insights into how such idiosyncrasies may deprive institutional advancement—committee assignments, chairmanships, and party leadership positions—of the influence it once afforded.

The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress

Author : Eric Schickler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191628255
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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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

The French Revolution

Author : Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Revolution written by Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The French revolution

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The French revolution written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The French Revolution: a History

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The French Revolution: a History written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Presidential Agenda

Author : Roger T. Larocca
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210333
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Presidential Agenda written by Roger T. Larocca and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Post-Communist Parliaments

Author : David M. Olson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317966252
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Post-Communist Parliaments written by David M. Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the "founding" or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presidentially-dominated. Whilst in the early years, they had been characterised as "parliaments in adolescence," they have - through the second decade - continued to improvise but also elaborate their working relationships with both their chief executives and electorates. This book examines these adaptations in seven parliaments, comparing both among them and with parliaments of west Europe. Their changes are traced through four distinct sets in context, members, internal structure, and working relationship with the executive. This research develops a common perspective for our understanding of both new and developed legislatures by tracing the steps through which new parliaments begin, adapt and become established. This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Legislative Studies.

The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development

Author : Richard M. Valelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191086975
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development written by Richard M. Valelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American politics, APD prizes analytical rigor, data collection, the development and testing of theory, and the generation of provocative hypotheses. Much APD scholarship indeed overlaps with the American politics subfield and its many well developed literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of (in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and income, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and processes evolve over time - and whether (and how) they alter, compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena that appear new or surprising prefigured in ways that an APD approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the evolution of American politics unlock its significance? Featuring contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American political development.

Patterns of Parliamentary Behavior

Author : Herbert Döring
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351912526
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Patterns of Parliamentary Behavior written by Herbert Döring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins where the first Döring book of 1995 finished by considering what effects the rules had on legislative output during the same period. It addresses four distinct yet complementary research topics: - the connection between a number of veto players and law production in West European parliamentary democracies - the impact of closed versus open rules - the effects of committee structure and organization on the degree of conflict or consensus on the procedure of passing legislation - the importance of agenda setting and agenda control for the prevention of cycling across issues and the distribution of particular benefits of shifting and transient majorities. Fundamental to this volume is the ability of the project group to fashion an original data set. As a consequence, this volume is able to ascertain the extent to which parliamentary procedures contributed to shaping policy output in this field during the 1980s.

Congress Reconsidered, 10th Edition

Author : Lawrence C. Dodd
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1452227829
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Congress Reconsidered, 10th Edition written by Lawrence C. Dodd and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a classic, Dodd and Oppenheimer's Congress Reconsidered is the recognized source for in-depth, cutting-edge scholarship on Congress geared to undergraduates. Thoroughly updated for the 112th Congress.

Time and Politics

Author : Ryan A. Vieira
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198737548
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Time and Politics written by Ryan A. Vieira and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cultural and transnational history of modern procedural reform in the Westminster parliamentary system in the nineteenth century, explaining how and why governments in Britain and the British world gained control over parliament through the application of new concepts of time and efficiency.