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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"legislative politics"”.
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Black Legislative Politics in Illinois: A Theoretical and Structural Analysis
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Institutional Variation, Balance of Power and Agenda Control: Evidence from the Argentine Subnational Legislatures
This research investigates how patterns of legislative competition (i.e. partisan fragmentation and the majority/plurality party) are likely to affect the effect of rules and practices that govern the legislative process. These different patterns of legislative competition, I argue, will have an …
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Parties, Committees, and Rules in the U.S. House of Representatives
… upon the literature of positive theories of legislative politics, and provide three more nuanced stories about various stages in the U.S. House of Representatives: rules making, committee composition, and floor voting. The chapter, Conditional Nature of Rules Changes, examines why the U.S. …
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The Substantive Representation of Women in Turkey: Examining the Impact of Gender and Intersecting Identities in the Legislative Arena
… representation. Women’s exclusion from politics has been the unprecedented fact in history. The last decades have witnessed an increase in women’s political engagement and their election to public office with the changing roles of women, particularly the incorporation of women into the …
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Communication in Collective Choice Environments
<p>In this dissertation, I present three models of communication in collective choice environments. The first two models demonstrate how collective choice procedures provide opportunities for informed communicators to manipulate outcomes by strategically obfuscating information to appeal to …
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Pathways to congress: precongressional careers and congressional behavior
… experiences relate to the contents of members’ legislative agendas, their orientation toward legislative activities and constituent outreach, and their partisan loyalty. Members with legislative and executive backgrounds are more active in the legislative process and more successful in seeing …
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Unpacking Coalitions: Explaining International Commitment in European Governments
… the dissertation utilizes the Comparative Politics literature on coalition theories, legislative politics and economic voting. Specifically, it introduces the veto players and clarity of government responsibility theories to frame the debate and to demonstrate that both theories remain …
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Legislative Effectiveness in Brazil: the Role of Legislative Member organizations in the Chamber of Deputies
<p>What explains variation in legislative effectiveness where party systems are fragmented and not policy-oriented? Why and how are some legislators in these contexts able to move their proposals through the legislative process and into law, while others fail to do so?</p><p>Recent literature on …