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  1. DEEP BENCH: CONGRESSIONAL STAFF IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

    Burgat, Casey2018

    Capitol Hill is bustling with thousands of congressional staffers. Despite their numbers, and members readily admitting their reliance on these congressional aides, few scholars have turned their attention towards how lawmakers make use of their staffing resources or how these choices affect their …

    maryland Repository record

  2. Parties, Committees, and Rules in the U.S. House of Representatives

    Park, Hong Min2010

    … project aims to build upon the literature of positive theories of legislative politics, and provide three more nuanced stories about various stages in the U.S. House of Representatives: rules making, committee composition, and floor voting. The chapter, Conditional Nature of Rules Changes, …

    wustl Repository record

  3. CONGRESS Y: How Party Leaders Manage The House Of Representatives

    Toner, Brendan

    … Congress? Congress (specifically, the U.S. Houseof Representatives) provides a limiting case of differing theories of public management,since Congress is populated by highly motivated members (employees) who do not needconstant urging from their party leaders (bosses) to meet the goals of …

    siu-theses Repository record

  4. Decision-Making in the United States House of Representatives: A Computersimulation

    Grant, Lawrence VernonUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114765.pdf: 7007754 bytes, checksum: 6049efa4445d00a922523bd8d13a7416 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970

    uiuc Repository record

  5. Gendered Pathways to Office for Members of the 112th U.S. House of Representatives

    Sarich, Samantha

    eiu Repository record

  6. The existence of preference outlier committees in the 1999-2008 Louisiana House of Representatives

    Sandahl, Trisha MariPolitical Science2022

    In recent years the complexity of understanding the politics of committee assignment, has led to lively scholarly debates. At the heart of this debate lie three theories of legislative committee development: the distributive, informational, and major party cartel theory. Each of these theories …

    lsu-thes Repository record

  7. Congressional sea change : conflict and organizational accommodation in the House of Representatives, 1878-1921

    Wolf, Thomas WestermanMassachusetts Institute of Technology1981

    Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1981.

    mit Repository record

  8. Redistricting and the U.S. House of Representatives : illuminating electoral bias with the Brookes Method

    Hill, Tony L.Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010

    This dissertation analyzes the effects of Congressional redistricting in the United States using the Brookes Method, developed by R.H. Brookes, a New Zealand political scientist. The Brookes Method disaggregates electoral bias into five separate components. My analysis shows that the party winning …

    mit Repository record

  9. Study of voting alignments in the 1977 U. S. House of Representatives : a policy dimension approach.

    DeVries, John T., 1954-Baylor University.1979

    … examines voting alignments in the 1977 U. S. House of Representatives. A strong linkage between the voting alignments of the entire House membership in different policy areas was predicted. Six policy dimensions were utilized: "NATIONAL SECURITY COMMITMENT REORIENTATION" (military policy), …

    baylor Repository record

  10. The Volume and Stability of Intraparty Consensus in The House of Representatives During Four Recent Congresses

    Anderson, Lee FranklinUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    U of I Only

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  11. On to bigger and better things: the behavioral consequences of ambition in the US House of Representatives

    LaForge, CheraUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2013

    … explores how progressive ambition—or the pursuit of a higher office—affects the behavior of members of the United States House of Representatives. Drawing upon a wide variety of legislative and campaign activities (including roll call votes, introductions and cosponsorships, amendments, and …

    uiuc Repository record

  12. Social Networking and the Web Campaign: Observations from the 2010 Election for the U.S. House of Representatives

    Oliver, Mark J.Virginia Tech2011

    … as a weaker and less meaningful form of political involvement than traditional, offline activities. This thesis presents an overview of the literature on political participation and the Internet in order to understand the origins of this view and why participation on social media may …

    vt Repository record

  13. It's not what you say, but how you say it: anger, audio, and the U.S. House of Representatives

    Dietrich, BryceUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Members of Congress have been consistently asked to “tone down the rhetoric.” Implicit in these calls is the assumption that congressional anger has a negative effect on political participation. To test this claim, this dissertation considers whether anger increases or decreases voter turnout in …

    uiuc Repository record

  14. A woman’s place is in the House…of Representatives: How Labour women can use Direct Voter Contact to support their election campaigns

    Kerby, Sarah AngeliqueOtago Polytechnic2022

    … level. The thesis also discusses the use of Direct Voter Contact in a New Zealand environment.

    otago-polytech Repository record

  15. Criteria for majority party leadership selection in the United States House of Representatives : evidence of institutionalization in the collegial style, 1962-1976

    Walker, Rowena Lewis1978

    This paper will explore further the process of selection of majority party leaders in the United States House of Representatives. It will seek to show that there were certain common denominators that existed among those who were selected for leadership positions between 1962 and 1976, and that …

    u-pacific Repository record

  16. Judging Judges: The Impeachment of Federal Judiciary Members

    Goguen, Jennifer

    There are many facets of impeachment that warrant examination. The impeachment inquiries of individual presidents and federal judges have all been studied in depth, but one aspect of impeachment still remains fundamentally unexplored: Under what circumstances will the House of Representatives vote …

    uno Repository record

  17. Sectionalism and the Representation Debate, 1787-1792

    Grenier, John E.

    <p>From 1787 until 1792 the issue of the apportionment of representatives in the House of Representatives was the focus of spirited debate in American politics. The central issue at stake was the size and influence of each of the sections in future Congresses. The representation issue was first …

    nodak Repository record

  18. Education and change : quality or equality? : an analysis of the current (1985-1986) opposition among pupils, teachers and parent communities in the Western Cape to the existing educational dispensation, in institutions which fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education and Culture, House of Representatives

    Pratt, EdwardSchool of Education1988

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  19. Presidential-Legislative Relations and Presidential Scandal

    Canody, Kevin M.Virginia Tech2009

    … (2001) find that presidential scandal impacts House of Representatives voting behavior on key votes cited by Congressional Quarterly. A slight revision and replication of Meinke and Anderson's research finds presidential scandal impacts Senate aggregate key votes reported by Congressional …

    vt Repository record

  20. Post-September 11<sup>th</sup> representations of Latin American immigrants in political discourse: An analysis of metaphor

    Romerhausen, Nick James

    <p>This study analyzes the types of metaphorical labels that the United States House of Representatives uses in post-September 11th resolutions to label and describe Latin American immigrants. The rhetorical philosophy of Kenneth Burke, Haig Bosmajian’s <em>The Language of Oppression</em>, and a …

    emich Repository record

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