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The behavioral consequences of personality in state legislatures
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Professionalism, institutionalization and committee services in US. state legislatures
… in the committee systems of six U.S. states. I examine whether increased professionalization, as defined by increases in levels of member salary, legislative staffing, and time in session, causes legislatures to institutionalize in a manner similar to the U.S. Congress. Specifically, …
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Statehouse Mosaics and the American Electorate: How State Legislatures Affect Political Participation
… few studies have explored how variations in state governing institutions influence voting behavior. Utilizing lower chamber state legislative election returns from the years 2000 through 2010, and the 2002 through 2010 GSS data series, this dissertation focuses on how US state legislatures …
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Politicians' attitudes toward the equal rights amendment: a study of the West Virginia and Virginia state legislatures
… from legislators and former legislators from the states of West Virginia and Virginia. Approximately 70.2 percent of the 195 delegates and former delegates responded to the survey. The findings indicated that the social, background and political variables under investigation were not related to …
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Gendered Civil Society Context, Local Party Strength, and Candidate Emergence: Explaining Female Representation across the US State Legislatures
… in female representation observed across states and party caucuses in the US state legislatures. I develop and test the theory of gendered civil society context and party strength to explain why female candidates are more likely to run for office in some places rather than others. Gendered …
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The Effects of State Constitutional Design of Gubernatorial and Legislative Authority in State Budget Policy
Each of the fifty U.S. state constitutions establishes a fundamental framework for governmental operations within the state. Described by previous scholarship as the state's political technology, state constitutions delineate formal gubernatorial and legislative authority. Extant literature has …
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Statutorily enacted estate planning forms: Development, explanation, analysis, studies, commentary, and recommendations
… are great, most people fail to make adequate estate arrangements. Many state legislatures have recognized the ensuing problems and have attempted to rectify them by adopting an innovative technique--statutorily enacted estate planning forms.
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Teachers union influence on alternative teacher certification policies: An event history diffusion analysis.
… teacher certification policies in the states between 1975 and 2000 using event history analysis and supplementing the event history analysis with an ordinary least squares regression analysis of the strength of the alternative teacher certification policies. In order to test both …
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Memorial Laws: Social and Media Construction of Personalized Legislation, 1994-2005
… have led to the recent adoption by American state legislatures of what are known as Memorial Laws. First enacted in 1994, these laws have become increasingly common. However, there has been little or no formal academic research into them. This investigation aims to provide a preliminary …
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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House
… of African- 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
… of African- 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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Conflict of Interest and Corruption in the States
… and policies implemented and practiced in all 50 state legislatures. The research identifies characteristics of conflict of interest regimes and suggests relationships between these characteristics and public corruption. If finds that the political culture of a state, and the professionalism of …
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Candidate emergence and success: Evidence from women in state legislative primary elections
… to be underrepresented in Congress and most state legislatures is that women are not running for office. Many scholars suggest that the reason for the lack of women candidates is that women are not ambitious and choose not to run for office. In this context, ambition refers to office seeking …
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The successful diffusion of gender-affirming care bans in the U.S.: how partisanship functions as a mechanism of policy diffusion
… the diffusion of anti-trans policies among the states has targeted the ability of transgender Americans to participate in athletics, change identification documents, use public facilities - such as bathrooms or locker rooms, and obtain gender affirming healthcare. The banning of gender affirming …
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The Termination of the Quickening Doctrine: American Law, Society, and the Advent of Professional Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
… common law of England and of the early United States embraced quickening. Prior to quickening abortion was legally and socially benign. Abortion was a non-issue, for life was not considered to exist before the fetus was quick — which usually occurs in the fourth or fifth month of gestation. At …
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Mechanisms of Juvenile Transfer: Variations in Incarceration and Sentence Length in Criminal Court
… response to increases in violent juvenile crime, state legislatures created and expanded juvenile transfer policies in the mid to late 1990's. Although many of these policies have been in effect for almost 15 years, there is little empirical work examining how type of transfer can affect …
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Wait 'til next year? The politics and timing of treaty ratification
States spend years and tremendous diplomatic capital negotiating treaties. Yet, despite the best efforts of skilled negotiators, some states wait for months, years, and even decades, to ratify the treaties they took part in negotiating. In this dissertation, I investigate the phenomenon of …
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Underrepresentation of Women in American Politics
… I studied why women are underrepresented in state legislatures. I conducted a data set ranging from 2000 to 2018 for forty-three US states, analyzing the percentage of women who won and the number of women who ran in the elections. Using this data, I found evidence that personal life choices …
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Model Legislation as a Measure of Special Interest Influence: The American Legislative Exchange Council and the Koch Network
… the impact these factors have on policy at the state level. Using a sample of 171 model bills drafted by ALEC, we utilize preliminary natural language processing methods to identify key topics existant in model bills and compare those to a sample of all legislation passed in the state of …
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Decoding the Bundle of Sticks: Genetic Property Rights, Research & Regulation
… genetic property rights, has emerged in state legislatures to aid in fostering trust and confidence between the individual and the scientific community. This thesis argues that to prevent genetic discrimination and commercial exploitation, property rights in genetic material and …
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