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Ethics in Congress
Public confidence in Congress has dropped to an all-time low, and yet the notion that Congress is full of "crooks" does not seem to bear close scrutiny. Instances of ethical impropriety that were significant either for setting constitutional precedent or for providing the impetus for reform are …
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The Tweet Delete of Congress: Congress and Deleted Posts on Twitter
… This raises the question Which members of Congress are deleting tweets and why? Thus, I conduct the first known qualitative study on Congress and deleted tweets, to determine what members may be trying to delete. An empirical analysis on raw data, including 500 deleted tweets by Congress …
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Andrew Johnson in Congress
… the Myers ease, putting Johnson in the right and Congress in the wrong, has made a fair- minded public anxious to learn the truth concerning such a man.
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Legislative commitment in Congress
… dissertation investigates why some members of Congress (MCs) commit themselves to lawmaking in the pursuit of changing public policy – in other words, why some MCs behave as policy wonks. While the Framers envisioned that Congress would be the policymaking engine of the federal government and …
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Party Regularity in the Sixty-Third Congress
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Defending Congress : the politics of defense organization
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1998.
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Three Essays on Trading by Members of Congress
… content of stock trades by members of Congress (politicians) in three separate essays. In my first essay, based on approximately 62,000 common stock transactions over the 2004--2010 period, I present evidence that past firm-level trading activity by politicians predicts future …
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Politics as Usual: Congress and the Intelligence Community
… policy, or their effectiveness in warning.</p><p>Congress is nominally endowed with the primary responsibility for piercing this curtain of secrecy and ensuring the community’s primary goals are pursued efficiently and lawfully. Unfortunately, the secrecy that makes congressional oversight …
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The relations of Congress and the Supreme Court
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Pathways to congress: precongressional careers and congressional behavior
Members of Congress have a variety of career experiences before Congress, non-political and political. In this dissertation, I bring together interdisciplinary strands of research on careers and occupational behavior to compare how MCs from different career backgrounds act in the U.S. House of …
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Congress and the Financial Services Industry, 1989-2008
This thesis explores the congressional politics of the financial services industry in the United States between 1989 and 2008. Three approaches are pursued. First, I provide a detailed account of the major legislation concerning the industry during this period, with particular reference to interest …
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Congress and Early Federalist Military Policy: An Examination of Defense Related Roll Calls in the Second United States Congress, 1792-1793
… defense were firmly rooted in the minds of most congressmen meeting in Philadelphia. Many of the legislators had been indelibly imprinted with a fear of a large standing army in peacetime from their own personal experiences in the pre-Revolutionary days. Many of those who would become stalwarts …
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Impact of Interest Group Testimony on Lawmaking in Congress
<p>Building on interest group and congressional committee literature, the interest group impact theory is created to explicate the role of interest groups in congressional committee hearings. This theory applies not only to the influence interest groups have in congressional hearings, but also to …
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Institutions and information : the politics of expertise in Congress
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1992.
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
… think tanks increase polarization in Congress.
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Polarized Without the Other Side: Measurements from Congress on Bluesky
<p>Political polarization seems to be rising at an alarming rate in the United States. Those on opposite sides of the political spectrum are increasingly viewing each other more negatively, with this effect amplified in the rhetoric of elected officials. In this research, I examine social media …
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May 1856: Southern Reaction to Conflict in Kansas and Congress
This thesis examines southern reactions to events that occurred in May 1856: the outbreak of civil war in Kansas and the caning of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. I researched two newspapers from the upper South state of Virginia, the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Daily Whig, and two …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
… think tanks increase polarization in Congress.
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