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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"legislative behavior"”.
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Congressional primaries and legislative behavior
… data from the 1998-2008 election cycles and legislative behavior data from the 105th - 110th Congresses, my analyses compare the legislative behavior of MCs with and without primary opponents, the behavior of legislators before and during the primary election, and MCs’ behavior across …
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Study of United States Senate voting behavior : the issue of "law-and-order", 1969-1970.
… 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 use of the scaling techniques developed by Louis Guttman. A theoretical model was proposed which stated …
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The Substantive Representation of Women in Turkey: Examining the Impact of Gender and Intersecting Identities in the Legislative Arena
… of women has fostered research on their behavior in office, the challenges they confront, and to what extent their actions differ from those of men in office. I examined the representation of women in the Turkish parliament in a context where Islam is the predominant religion of the …
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Cosponsorship Networks in the U.S. Congress: Measuring the Success of Female Legislators
… levels of collaboration positively influence legislative success and in others they do not, the results often depending on the characteristic of the group itself and the institutional setting within which the group operates. Additionally, prior studies within the domains of social network …
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Congress and Immigration Policy: A Study of the Member-level Motivations and Agenda Setting Strategies Surrounding Immigration Reform
… project unpacks a micro- and macro-level behavioral quandary: the constraint of member-level motivations on majority party agenda setting strategies, existing in policy contexts that generate internal divisions within political parties. In particular, I do this through the lens of …
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O legislativo e a política externa do Chile (2006-2014)
… of the variables presented relation with the legislative behavior – showed by the continuation of the legislator’s polarization in yours coalition and by the likely to support the president be in the direction of government parties. Confirmed the hypothesis of ideological behavior, this …
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O legislativo e a política externa do Chile (2006-2014)
… of the variables presented relation with the legislative behavior – showed by the continuation of the legislator’s polarization in yours coalition and by the likely to support the president be in the direction of government parties. Confirmed the hypothesis of ideological behavior, this …
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
… Americans competing for and holding state legislative offices has increased significantly. Their growth is most notable in southern state legislatures. A growing number of studies have been devoted to African-Americans in these state legislatures. Absent from previous studies is a …
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
… Americans competing for and holding state legislative offices has increased significantly. Their growth is most notable in southern state legislatures. A growing number of studies have been devoted to African-Americans in these state legislatures. Absent from previous studies is a …
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DEEP BENCH: CONGRESSIONAL STAFF IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
… or how these choices affect their subsequent legislative behavior and effectiveness. This dissertation seeks to quantify staff characteristics and impacts within both Representatives’ personal offices and congressional committees using two authoritative, comprehensive staff databases. More …
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Legislative commitment in Congress
… dysfunction and gridlock. In this context, the behavior of policy wonks is of normative and practical interest, but there remains relatively little research that focuses squarely on these members. I conceptualize policy wonks as MCs who commit to legislating by adopting intense, specialized, and …
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The Ties That Do Not Bind: Social Capital, Minority Female Representation, and Social Inequality in the United States
… of representative bureaucracy, theories on legislative behavior, and public health research, I argue that (minority) female representation is critical to reducing health disparity. In the first essay, "All Women Not Affected Equally: Social Capital and Minority Female Representation in …
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Three papers on congressional communication and representation
… In my second paper, I find clear evidence that legislative behavior does not change as a consequence of the rise or fall of military presence in a district. However, members' communication with their constituents does change. Members who gain bases are more likely to emphasize military issues in …
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The behavioral consequences of personality in state legislatures
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Pathways to congress: precongressional careers and congressional behavior
… strands of research on careers and occupational behavior to compare how MCs from different career backgrounds act in the U.S. House of Representatives. I argue that career experiences can provide relevant skills and insights that members in their first and second terms use to adjust to being …
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On to bigger and better things: the behavioral consequences of ambition in the US House of Representatives
… the pursuit of a higher office—affects the behavior of members of the United States House of Representatives. Drawing upon a wide variety of legislative and campaign activities (including roll call votes, introductions and cosponsorships, amendments, and campaign contributions), I examine …
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Female Legislators and the Power of the Purse: Does Gender Affect Government Spending? A Cross-National Analysis
… research on the relationship between gender and legislative representation, there are conflicting findings about the activities and effects of female legislators. The outcome variable, government spending, measures substantive representation by analyzing government spending data across several …
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Changing Ideological Boots: Adaptive Legislator Behavior in Changing Districts
… roll-call votes are often used to investigate legislative voting behavior. To depict adaptive roll-call behavior in response to demographic changes that occur during redistricting, I use issue specific interest group scores from the ADA, NFU, and COPE. This exploits the bias in the selection of …