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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"divided government"”.
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Split-ticket voting and divided government: Intentional choices or unintended consequences.
Explanations of divided government have focused on the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties as the reason for partisan patterns of divided government. Yet the literature on split-ticket voting emphasizes the declining importance of parties in shaping vote choices. This …
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Essays On Policy Dynamics Under Political Frictions
… or Blessing? On the Welfare Consequences of Divided Government and Policy Gridlock, studies the welfare consequences of divided government by analyzing a dynamic legislative bargaining model with endogenous status quo. By comparing a unified government where the opponent's approval is not …
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Presidential Power, Historical Practice, and Constraints
… when legislation is too difficult to pass due to divided party government, or when making sweeping changes to executive departments or agencies that historically required congressional approval. The purpose of this analysis was to explore whether a contemporary Democratic president are more likely …
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A century of democratic deliberation over American and British national health care: extending the Kingdon model
… British parliamentary system than it is for the divided government structure of the U.S.
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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
… of national elections, i.e. the frequency of divided government, the frequency of split Congresses, the average length of a single party's majority control of the Senate, the disruption of seat to vote ratios, and the question of partisan advantage.
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Teachers union influence on alternative teacher certification policies: An event history diffusion analysis.
… per pupil spending, legislative professionalism, divided government, democratic governor, percentage of minority students, change in percentage of minority students, an electoral threat index, and a time counter. Although the event history model results were inconclusive with respect to the …
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A Reassesment of the Presidential Use of Executive Orders, 1953-2008
… overdispersed count variables. The effects of divided government and ideological distance are the primary independent variables examined. The ideological distance variable consists of the absolute distance between the president's ideology and the ideology of the median member of the Senate. …
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The Unitary Executive and Power in the Modern American Presidency
… control and influence over the federal government’s agencies, the executive branch, and therefore administrative policies. I then assess the legitimacy and influence of the unitary executive on power, with other historical context variables. These include serving under a unified or …
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A Blue-Green Divide? Elite and Mass Partisan Dynamics in Taiwan
… Yuan. This resulted from the formation of a divided government and the confrontation of two party coalitions after the 2000 presidential election. Furthermore, this polarization is mainly due to the opposite positions of the two party coalitions on the issue of the relationship with China. …
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Politics as Usual: Congress and the Intelligence Community
… every national security discussion occurring in government, yet it remains relatively obscure to academia and the broader public. The inherently secretive nature of intelligence impedes the collection and analysis of reliable and representative data. Consequently, broad generalities and …
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Putting the winner-loser effect in context: presidentialism & democracy in the Americas
… the relationship of such voters vis-à-vis the government and the political system differ based on whether one was a political winner or political loser during the last electoral cycle. Using survey data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), I execute a comparative study of the …
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Judicial Independence of State Administrative Courts in Mexico
… such as political fragmentation (lack of unified government), life tenure, and methods of appointment that do not involve the participation of the state executive at the subnational level also enhance judicial independence. I approach judicial independence through the analysis of judges’ …