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Author: David M. Olson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-05-16
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521381031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThi book will be of interest to specialists and students of politics and economic policy making.
Author: Shane Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0199653011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the most distinguished legislative scholars in political science, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description and critical assessment of the state of the art in this key area.
Author: United States. Congress
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 1324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Wehner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-06-23
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0230281575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat 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.
Author: John V. Sullivan
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Mason
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 804
ISBN-13: 9781580249744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bjorn Erik Rasch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1136870458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSetting the agenda for parliament is the most significant institutional weapon for governments to shape policy outcomes, because governments with significant agenda setting powers, like France or the UK, are able to produce the outcomes they prefer, while governments that lack agenda setting powers, such as the Netherlands and Italy in the beginning of the period examined, see their projects significantly altered by their Parliaments. With a strong comparative framework, this coherent volume examines fourteen countries and provides a detailed investigation into the mechanisms by which governments in different countries determine the agendas of their corresponding parliaments. It explores the three different ways that governments can shape legislative outcomes: institutional, partisan and positional, to make an important contribution to legislative politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, legislative studies/parliamentary research, governments/coalition politics, political economy, and policy studies.
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: Lynda W. Powell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0472028278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCampaign contributions are widely viewed as a corrupting influence but most scholarly research concludes that they have marginal impact on legislative behavior. Lynda W. Powell shows that contributions have considerable influence in some state legislatures but very little in others. Using a national survey of legislators, she develops an innovative measure of influence and delineates the factors that explain this great variation across the 99 U.S. state legislative chambers. Powell identifies the personal, institutional, and political factors that determine how much time a legislator devotes to personal fundraising and fundraising for the caucus. She shows that the extent of donors' legislative influence varies in ways corresponding to the same variations in the factors that determine fundraising time. She also confirms a link between fundraising and lobbying with evidence supporting the theory that contributors gain access to legislators based on donations, Powell's findings have important implications for the debate over the role of money in the legislative process.
