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Information And Voting In Senate Elections
… to analyze the ability of voters during Senate elections. Special attention in this study is given towards individual characteristics and campaign characteristics. First, individual characteristics, such as social and demographic variables, are expected to have an effect on voting …
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Essays on abstention in the United States Senate
… model to study roll-calls in the United States Senate, and empirically test its implications. In this procedure, senators cast their votes in a sequence, exogenously determined by the alphabetical order of their last names. I categorize senators into multiple types whose utilities depend not …
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The Treaty of Versailles and the United States Senate
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A Chemist in the Senate: Edwin Fremont Ladd, 1921-1925
… League to endorse him for the United States Senate in 1920. Following his victory over Senator Asle J. Gronna in the Republican primary, Ladd defeated his Democratic opponent in the general election.</p> <p>From his entry into the Senate in 1921 to his death in 1925, Ladd continued to …
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Mood and moderation: Alternative images of Senate reelection seeking behavior
Representation requires a degree of responsiveness on the part of legislators to voter preferences. This effort examines a model of responsiveness built on an ideological voter-senator linkage and implicitly confined to only the last stage of each senator's term and finds it wanting. Given …
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Capturing the evasive President: Disaggregating Senate-executive interactions in foreign affairs.
Capturing the evasive President: Disaggregating Senate-executive interactions in foreign affairs.
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At sword's point : Charles E. Wilson and the Senate, 1953-1957
… Wilson and his Democratic critics in the Senate were hardy rivals, with influential Democrats calling for Wilson's resignation at regular intervals. Wilson's encounters with Richard Russell, Lyndon B. Johnson, Stuart Symington and others may have lacked the drama of Harry Truman's …
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Access and Information: Testimony in the Texas Senate Committee on Education
… looked at witness registration lists from the Senate Committee on Education in the Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session. Data from these lists were gathered and entered into an Excel spreadsheet. For each registry, information was recorded as to whether the witness registered for, against, or …
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Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study on State-Sponsored Immigration Policy
<p>This study assesses the origins of Arizona’s state-sponsored immigration policy. It attempts to identify the social dynamics within Arizona that contributed to the overwhelming public support for SB 1070. Since it has been two years after the law was passed, this analysis determines what impact …
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Political Independents of the Hoover Era: The Progressive Insurgents of The Senate
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T21:21:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6104374.pdf: 15732957 bytes, checksum: 562b4b87681052a9aab8200c362252d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Framing Student-Athlete Compensation: A Thematic Analysis of California Senate Bill 206
… past 150 years, but the passing of California Senate Bill 206 on September 30, 2019, placed that power at risk. The bill will allow student-athletes to receive compensation for their name, image and likeness in the state of California, and has influenced other states to bring forth legislation …
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Race of the century : Guy vs. Young, 1974 North Dakota U.S. Senate election
… Milton Young, who had served in the U.S. Senate for twenty-seven years, decided to run for another term with realistic confidence in his ability to repeat prior election victories. His initial optimism began to erode as national Republican leaders questioned his ability to defeat his …
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A Study of the Organizational Effectiveness of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
… was to study the effectiveness of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. The four major objectives were: describe the historical development of the Senate; determine the effectiveness of the methods by which the Senate provides for community college faculty to participate in …
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Profiles in Faculty Leadership: The Experience of 1985-1986 California Community College Senate Presidents
… community colleges, 20 year history of faculty senates and recent reform legislation mandating shared governance is a logical platform from which to explore the issue of faculty leadership. This study was conducted in an effort to learn more about those who have served as California community …
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Layers of Identity & Privilege in Legislation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Senate Bill 744
This research examines Senate Bill 744 (S.744) from the 113th Congress of the United States, and its findings will be used as a model to reveal problems in similar legislation. Senate Bill 744 was proposed by the 113th Congress in an attempt to accomplish bi-partisan immigration reform. The bill …
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Predicting legislative outcomes: an analysis of three sessions of the New York State Senate
… on any bill introduced in the New York State Senate.</p> <p>The legislative process is viewed as a stochastic branching process, where the researcher is attempting to predict where in the process any introduced bill resides at the end of the legislative session. The information available about …
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U.S. Senate Deliberations on the War Powers Resolution during the Bush and Obama Administrations
… of those lines of argument in the U.S. Senate over the Republican Administration of President George W. Bush and the Democratic Administration of President Barack Obama. Both administrations were involved in multiple deployments of U.S. forces abroad, and experienced opposition from both …
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