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Author: David M. Olson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-24
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1317473140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government.
Author: David M. Olson
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781563243141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of parliaments and legislatures in their many dimensions. The volume contains eight chapters: legislatures in today's democracies; the members--representatives and legislators; political parties; committees; legislative-executive relations; the electorate and the public--elections and interest groups; parliaments at the beginning; and legislatures in the policy process. Includes appendices on stages of legislative procedure; the vocabulary of parliaments and legislatures; and Congress and Parliament--American and British English. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Sarah A. Binder
Publisher: Institutions of American Democracy Series
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780195309164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains 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.
Author: Paul J. Quirk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-10-27
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 0199883858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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?
Author: Jennifer Gandhi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-07-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521155717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften dismissed as window-dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in non-democratic regimes. In a comprehensive cross-national study of all non-democratic states from 1946 to 2002 that examines the political uses of these institutions by dictators, Gandhi finds that legislative and partisan institutions are an important component in the operation and survival of authoritarian regimes. She examines how and why these institutions are useful to dictatorships in maintaining power, analyzing the way dictators utilize institutions as a forum in which to organize political concessions to potential opposition in an effort to neutralize threats to their power and to solicit cooperation from groups outside of the ruling elite. The use of legislatures and parties to co-opt opposition results in significant institutional effects on policies and outcomes under dictatorship.
Author: Norman Schofield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-07-31
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1139455257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States. The approach uses the idea of valence, that is, the party leader's non-policy electoral popularity, and employs survey data to model these elections. The analysis explains why small parties in Israel and Italy keep to the electoral periphery. In the Netherlands, Britain, and the US, the electoral model is extended to include the behavior of activists. In the case of Britain, it is shown that there will be contests between activists for the two main parties over who controls policy. For the recent 2005 election, it is argued that the losses of the Labour party were due to Blair's falling valence. For the US, the model gives an account of the rotation of the locations of the two major parties over the last century.
Author: Craig Volden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-27
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0521761522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: David M. Olson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-24
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1317473159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government.
Author: United States. Congress
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 1324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barry Ames
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2009-01-22
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0472021435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a system that produces a multiplicity of weak parties and individualistic, pork-oriented politicians with little accountability to citizens. It explains the government's difficulties in adopting innovative policies by examining electoral rules, cabinet formation, executive-legislative conflict, party discipline and legislative negotiation. The book combines extensive use of new sources of data, ranging from historical and demographic analysis in focused comparisons of individual states to unique sources of data for the exploration of legislative politics. The discussion of party discipline in the Chamber of Deputies is the first multivariate model of party cooperation or defection in Latin America that includes measures of such important phenomena as constituency effects, pork-barrel receipts, ideology, electoral insecurity, and intention to seek reelection. With a unique data set and a sophisticated application of rational choice theory, Barry Ames demonstrates the effect of different electoral rules for election to Brazil's legislature. The readership of this book includes anyone wanting to understand the crisis of democratic politics in Brazil. The book will be especially useful to scholars and students in the areas of comparative politics, Latin American politics, electoral analysis, and legislative studies. Barry Ames is the Andrew Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.
