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State government responsiveness to urban problems :
(1983)
The purpose of this dissertation was to assess the importance of city needs in the allocation of state aid to city governments. While the responsiveness of federal aid to cities has received some attention in the literature, ...
Empty Chairs in an Empty Chamber: Deconstructing the Myth of Debate in the U.S. Senate
(2022)
Debate in the U.S. Senate has been revered and mythologized throughout much of our history. The historical impression of Senate debate is that it is robust, civil, and well informed. At the same time, the terms deliberation ...
Organized Interests in Congressional Elections
(2011)
Why do political action committees (PACs) donate money to some candidates and not others? Answers to this PAC-strategy question take two different forms. First, scholars emphasize demand-side variables of the legislative ...
The representative method: Legislative behavior in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
(2006)
This dissertation presents a model which examines three facets of representation. The study of legislative representation has been discussed within the categories of representative focus, constituency responsiveness, and ...
The Government Performance and Results Act and the Department of Defense: A view from the bottom.
(2004)
At least five government-wide reform initiatives have been attempted since the end of World War II. The latest is the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) passed into law in 1993. A review of literature on government ...
Subsystem Contexts and Policy Information: Conditional Effects on Information in Congressional Hearings
(2012)
While flows of policy information and the quest to acquire this information are generally accepted as important to the policymaking process (Krehbiel 1991; Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1993; Baumgartner and Jones 1993; Jones ...
Fairness in American politics and culture.
(2001)
Fairness is a term often used in political debate but not often carefully examined. In this dissertation I propose a way of understanding fairness by combining the insights of political theory with an examination of the ...
A strategy for survival of Thailand :
(1980)
The military governments favored policy changes that were in basic conformity with previous patterns. They generally favored continued alignment with the United States.
The Cultural Origins of Mass Ideology
(2011)
What factors drive the thoughts that come to respondents' minds at the particular moment that a survey question is asked about their policy preferences? We have a partial answer to this question from the long tradition of ...