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The Congressional Conference Committee: Seventieth to Eightieth Congresses
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Authoritarian entitlement and constraint: Women's representation in Chinese local congresses
… the composition of provincial and prefectural congresses in China shows a puzzling contrast between ethnic majority women and ethnic minority women, which cannot be explained by socioeconomic factors. I use a mixed-method approach to examining the puzzle. I conducted fieldwork in China …
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Chinese foreign policy between the ninth and tenth Party Congresses / [by] Greg O'Leary
ix, 379 leaves ; 30 cm.
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Congressional primaries and legislative behavior
… legislative behavior data from the 105th - 110th Congresses, my analyses compare the legislative behavior of MCs with and without primary opponents, the behavior of legislators before and during the primary election, and MCs’ behavior across Congresses. In turn, this provides insight into how …
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TOWN AND PROVINCE IN REVOLUTIONARY NEW HAMPSHIRE: A STABLE POLITICAL CULTURE CONFRONTS CHANGE, 1765--1776
… the General Assemblies with the Provincial Congresses and the 1776 House of Representatives, and constructed a composite biography for the 296 men who served during the period.</p><p>A comparison of the characteristics of the men who served in the three types of legislative bodies shows that …
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National Fitness or Failure? Heredity, Vice and Racial Decline in New Zealand Psychiatry: A Case Study of the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1868-99
… Zealand, and attendance at Intercolonial Medical Congresses, shared between New Zealand and the Australian colonies from 1892. Transactions from these congresses, along with medical journal articles and popular sources, reveal that the period from 1868 until the end of the nineteenth century was …
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The development of uniform international accounting: an enquiry into the problems, progress and prospects
… itself to these problems at recent international congresses of accountants. It established the International Coordination Committee for the Accounting Profession and the International Accounting Standards Committee with the specific objective of developing uniform international accounting …
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Backchannel policymaking: members of Congress pursuing policy goals through the bureaucracy
… the bureaucracy during the 110th and the 111th Congresses and draw on original bureaucratic records from the U.S. Departments of Labor and Homeland Security, reveal that a senator’s institutional position, constraints, and behavior within the legislative process predict her engagement in …
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James Alexander Walker: a biography
… and a member of the Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Congresses. On October 22, 1901, he died as a man who made his mark on Virginia history.
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Indirect Election and the Democratization of the United States Senate: Constitutional Design, Historical Development, Roll Call Voting, and the Outcome of National Election
… of divided government, the frequency of split Congresses, the average length of a single party's majority control of the Senate, the disruption of seat to vote ratios, and the question of partisan advantage.
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Cultivating Reform: Richard Nixon's Illicit Substance Control Legacy, Medical Marijuana Social Movement Organizations, And Venue Shopping
… by multiple presidents with acquiescent congresses adopting supplemental supply-side resource allocating legislation. My dissertation research uncoils the convoluted history and institutional dynamics of path dependent U.S. illegal drug control policies to answer the question of how …
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A comparative study of two Civil War prisons: Old Capitol prison and Castle Thunder prison
… be preserved. Under constant scrutiny, both Congresses, along with prison and military officials, attempted to make sure the prisoners in these two capitals received good treatment. Inmates at these two prisons did receive above average treatment. In some instances, life in these institutions …
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John Johns Trigg, Congressman
… in 1797 and served in the next three succeeding congresses until his death in 1804. Trigg was never a prominent figure in his own right, but he did oppose any attempts to centralize power. During his time in Congress, his importance lay in his unswerving loyalty to the Republican party. This was …
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An analysis of selected political party programs and legislative performance, 1952-1962
… was described and analyzed for the 83rd and 87th Congresses. These two Congresses were selected because in each one the party which had been out of power was reassuming control of both houses of Congress as well as the Presidency.The investigation of the four issues and the analysis of party …
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Pathways to congress: precongressional careers and congressional behavior
… analysis of members serving in the 101st-112th Congresses (1989-2012), I find that precongressional career experiences have multiple connections to members’ decisions. Career experiences relate to the contents of members’ legislative agendas, their orientation toward legislative activities and …
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Cultivat(ing) modernities : the Society for National Heritage, political propaganda and public architecture in twentieth-century Iran
… of historical landmarks, or art exhibitions and congresses. Modern Iran's relationship to its cultural heritage was equated to Iran's equal and rightful place in the network of modern nations; its safest and fastest corridor to a progressive, and at times utopian, modernity; and its essential …
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Myth and respectability in Swedish and Dutch fascism, 1931-40
… fully scripted and organised spectacles of party congresses. Ultimately it is shown that the fascist movements of Sweden and the Netherlands were highly innovative organisations. Mythopoeia had a powerful mobilising capacity, which could make up for the diminutive financial power and low …
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THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL CONFLICT: KINSHIP NETWORKS AND POLITICAL ALIGNMENTS IN THE CIVIL WARS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHILE
… If a family cluster was well represented in Congresses immediately before the onset of violent conflicts, it was inferred that the family supported the pre-conflict regimes; where a family bloc increased its representation in post-conflict Congresses, it was concluded that its allegiance was …
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