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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"United States Senate."”.
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Essays on abstention in the United States Senate
… voting 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 …
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The Treaty of Versailles and the United States Senate
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A study of political and sectional voting alignments in the United States Senate, 1921-1929
… through an examination of voting patterns in the United States Senate from the 67th through the 70th Congress (1921-29), Virtually every political history of the era touches upon Senate voting alignments, but there is no extant study with the scope, structure, and methodology of this …
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Keeping America a white man’s country: Southern opposition to civil rights in the united states senate
… rights legislation using the mechanisms of the Senate. The southern caucus beat back civil rights senators through a series of arguments that appealed both to the conservative nature of the Senate and their more conservative colleagues. While earlier arguments generally emphasized constitutional …
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The real rules of the budget game : minority fiscal decision making in the United States Senate
… budget rules on fiscal decision making in the Senate. It attempts to determine the efficacy of these rules as defined by those who advocate them, Public Choice scholars and conservative activists, by testing both whether they restrain spending overall and, second, whether they more often block …
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Study of United States Senate voting behavior : the issue of "law-and-order", 1969-1970.
… to the country were acted upon by the United States Senate during the Ninety-first Congress. This research has endeavored to study the voting behavior of senators on roll-call votes taken on these bills. A composite dependent variable of legislative behavior was constructed through the …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of the Foreign Policy Speeches of Robert M. La Follette, United States Senate, 1915-1919
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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
… with respect to indirect election and the United States Senate. The dissertation begins with an investigation of the origins and development of the Classical Republican and Classical Liberal principles that laid the foundation for indirect election in the American Constitution. The …
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The 1961 Texas special senatorial election.
… B. Johnson, Texas Democrat, resigned from the United States Senate to accept the Vice-Presidency. Governor Price Daniel appointed William A. Blakley as interim senator pending a special election to fill the unexpired term. A record seventy-one candidates filed for the special senatorial …
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Application of clinical pharmacy in the rural community : the Livingston project
… year's the health care delivery system of the United States has come under increasingly close scrutiny and attack by citizens concerned over the illogical distribution and cost of receiving adequate health care. Outcries for changing our current standards of health care delivery have reached …
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) : the dynamics of technology and regulation
… Michael Powell in February 2004, before the United States Senate. The objective of this thesis is to study how VoIP challenges the incumbent US telecommunications act. The appearance of VoIP comes at a juncture when telecommunications system has already turned into a large-scale, complex …
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The New Frontier: An Analysis of Effective New Media Political Communications and Campaigning
… analysis, we will discuss what contributes to a United States Senator's connectivity, and if his or her heightened connectivity led to a higher probability of winning elections. Units of analysis: The senators from the 111 th United States Senate. Data/Methods: For this analysis, binary …
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The Senate's veto power over presidential appointments to the Supreme Court, 1916-1930
… is a well known fact that in recent years the United States Senate has increasingly become more critical of presidential appointments to the Supreme Court branch. In this thesis the author has undertaken an intensive study of the several cases between 1916 and 1930 in which, serious opposition …
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Flack
… surrounding a contemporary campaign for the United States Senate, structured and narrated in a traditional manner, covering the events leading up to the campaign and delving into the private life of the first-person narrator. The work, though grounded in fiction, draws on personal experience …
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An analysis of the legislative debate on the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
… and the Hitchcock Report debated in the United States Senate. A study was made of the specific economic, social, and political forces of 1913 which produced the issues in the debate. It was found that the senators agreed on two basic propositions: (1) the National Banking System was …
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A Chemist in the Senate: Edwin Fremont Ladd, 1921-1925
… the Nonpartisan 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 …
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Indiana editorial opinion on the League of Nations : January 1919-March 1920
… Wilson presented the Treaty of Versailles to the United States Senate, partisan debate ensued, and a narrowing of editorial opinion parallel to that debate was evident among newspapers on both sides. Pro-League newspapers supported Wilson's position from the time he presented it to the Senate in …
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The Rhetorical Rise and Fall of Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement, 1952-1967
… in office beset by personal problems, two failed United States Senate bids and an anachronistic speaking style. Clement's sudden death in 1969 ended a life of tremendous promise and unfulfilled destiny. He had guided Tennessee through unprecedented social change, created an expanded economic base, …
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Thomas Swann: political acrobat and entrepreneur
… 1867 the Maryland legislature elected him to the United States Senate, but he declined the honor knowing the Republican majority in that body would refuse to seat him because of his shift to the Conservative Alliance formed by non-Radical Unionists and Democrats. After a second unsuccessful …
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