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Nurse State Legislators: The Journey to State Capitols
… of approximately 87 elected nurse state legislators in the United States. A demographic and electronic interview format was the primary instrument with open ended questions using Survey Monkey for collecting and analyzing demographic data. The response rate was 23% with 21 nurse …
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West Virginia state legislators' opinions of local mass media
… influence on their decision making process. The legislators did not, however, view the media as neutral sources of political information. Self-described "conservative" lawmakers rated media sources described as "liberal" as being less accurate in their coverage of the legislature than did …
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The Impact of Newspaper Opinion Writing on South Dakota Legislators
… This study examines how South Dakota state legislators react to opinions written in South Dakota’s 11 daily newspapers and if they take those opinions into consideration when making policy decisions. Thirty-four of the state’s 105 legislators completed an online questionnaire, which included …
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Reporters and Legislators in Illinois: Their Roles and How They Interact
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T21:39:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7013344.PDF: 6703642 bytes, checksum: f3f00f08d8f9e5ca3e8448151b92a9c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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An Inquiry Into the Socioeconomic Accounting Information Needs of Federal Legislators
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Dynamic responsiveness in the American states : legislators, constituents, and organized interests
An independent commission redrew California's electoral map after the 2012 redistricting cycle, inducing large, exogenous shocks to the composition and policy preferences of many districts. The first paper of the dissertation assesses repositioning among members of the state legislature. Did they …
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Lady, If You Go Into Politics: North Dakota's Women Legislators, 1923-1989
… other information about current and former women legislators. The study focuses on a series of questions about this group of women. What were their collective and individual backgrounds and subsequent pathways to the legislature? What were their major legislative interests and their committee …
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Cosponsorship Networks in the U.S. Congress: Measuring the Success of Female Legislators
… in this analysis test the hypotheses that female legislators in both chambers 1) exhibit greater sponsorship and co-sponsorship activity rates than their male counterparts, 2) form better social networks metrics than their male counterparts, and 3) despite these characteristics, are less …
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Support for Higher Education: Perceptions of Selected University Administrators and Legislators in Tennessee
… of selected university administrators and legislators concerning levels of support for Tennessee public higher education. The purpose of the study was to gain a greater understanding among the various constituents as to the needs and restraints facing higher education funding. The …
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Motivational Factors That Influence African American Women to Serve as Michigan State Legislators
… career choice of African American women legislators to serve in the State of Michigan Congress. Therefore, this study focused on motivations that affected three African American women legislators' political experiences.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. This study used a case-study approach, and …
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
… 2007 there were a total of 32 African-American legislators. Louisiana ranks among other states with the highest number, 32, and percentage, 22, of African-American legislators. Yet, despite their relatively large presence few scholarly studies have examined their legislative behavior. This study …
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
… 2007 there were a total of 32 African-American legislators. Louisiana ranks among other states with the highest number, 32, and percentage, 22, of African-American legislators. Yet, despite their relatively large presence few scholarly studies have examined their legislative behavior. This study …
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An Investigation Into the Decision-Making Processes of Legislators Engaged in Public Policy Regarding Education
… was to identify the decision-making processes of legislators engaged in public policy regarding education in Georgia. The study used a qualitative design. The researcher used short surveys and in-depth semi-structured interviews to understand the decision-making processes utilized by Georgia …
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The tailored information sharing decision model: A qualitative study exploring how expert lobbyists influence state legislators
… emergent social problems they need to share so legislators can make better policy decisions. HSNP administrators who lack policy practice knowledge and skills for communicating this information effectively, may be able to learn from lobbyists who routinely share information to influence state …
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Attitudes and Perceptions of County Legislators Regarding Their Influence Over the Formulation and Implementation of Environmental Policy
… to gauge the attitudes and perceptions of county legislators (commissioners or their equivalents) about their influence over the policy process as it pertains to environmental policy. To this end, a survey was developed that polled county legislators about their perceptions at two vital points in …
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Female Legislators and the Power of the Purse: Does Gender Affect Government Spending? A Cross-National Analysis
… about the activities and effects of female legislators. The outcome variable, government spending, measures substantive representation by analyzing government spending data across several issue areas. The key question is: has the addition of women to national legislatures led to an increase …
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A parlamenti képviselők választókerület-központúsága pártcentrikus választási rendszerekben Magyarország példáján = Legislators' constituency orientation under party-centred electoral rules
… as well as the currently held positions of the legislators. The nature of the independent variables will point to three different types of motivations: (i) electoral, (ii) position-related, and (iii) habitual explanations. Personal representation is perceived from three angles. First, both focus …
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