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What's Law Got to Do With It?: What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and What's at Stake by Charles Gardner Geyh
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Charles Gardner Geyh [Geyh, Charles Gardner]

A Theory of Precedent as Consensual Norm Strategic models of judging provide a promising starting point for researchers interested in understanding how individual preferences interact with institutional constraints to promote ...
( Category: Legal System July 31,2022 )
What Happened to the Republican Party?: And What It Means for American Presidential Politics by John Kenneth White
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:John Kenneth White [White, John Kenneth]

A Rising American Electorate At 11:12 p.m. eastern time, NBC News became the first network to call the 2012 election for Barack Obama.129 It wasn’t even close: Obama won 332 ...
( Category: National July 30,2022 )
Regulating Judicial Elections: Assessing State Codes of Judicial Conduct by C. Scott Peters
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:C. Scott Peters [Peters, C. Scott]

Findings Of the 336 candidates in the data set, 135 of them (40.2 percent) ran television ads during the course of their campaign. As one might expect, having a challenger ...
( Category: Legal System July 30,2022 )
Nixon's Court by Kevin J. McMahon
epub |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Kevin J. McMahon [McMahon, Kevin J.]

( Category: Judicial Branch July 29,2022 )
Urban Citizenship and American Democracy by Amy Bridges & Michael Javen Fortner
epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:Amy Bridges & Michael Javen Fortner [Bridges, Amy & Fortner, Michael Javen]

4 Farewell to the Urban Growth Machine Community Development Regimes in Smaller, Distressed Cities Richard A. Harris The New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids-Camden would like to thank the members ...
( Category: State & Local Government July 29,2022 )
Why Aren't They There?: The Political Representation of Women, Ethnic Groups and Issue Positions in Legislatures by Didier Ruedin
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Didier Ruedin [Ruedin, Didier]

Notes: The distribution (frequencies and densities) of levels of representation in the key policy domains as examined in this chapter. The distributions for the other domains are described in the ...
( Category: Legislative Branch July 29,2022 )
Kennedy Justice by Victor S. Navasky
epub |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:Victor S. Navasky [Navasky, Victor S.]

The trial was deferred and eventually, after a side issue went up to the Supreme Court, the whole issue was dropped in 1965 when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ...
( Category: Legal System July 28,2022 )
The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History by Dewey W. Grantham
epub |eng | 2021-10-21 | Author:Dewey W. Grantham [Grantham, Dewey W.]

SOURCE: Congressional Quarterly Almanac, vols. 13–41. NOTE: Coalition support scores are based upon an analysis of all roll call votes on which a majority of Republicans and southern Democrats voted ...
( Category: State & Local Government July 19,2022 )
To Serve the President: Continuity and Innovation in the White House Staff by Bradley H. Patterson
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Bradley H. Patterson [Patterson, Bradley H.]

From such an abysmal level of disparagement the vice presidential office has, step by escalating step, gained the recognition it must have as a preparation ground for the presidency. Not ...
( Category: Executive Branch July 19,2022 )
Framing the Solid South: The State Constitutional Conventions of Secession, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1860-1902 by Paul E Herron
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Paul E Herron [Herron, Paul E]

I have heard it already stated that a preamble, bill of rights, and a constitution had been sent to the Southern States from Washington . . . probably the framers ...
( Category: State & Local Government July 19,2022 )
Eyes on Spies: Congress and the United States Intelligence Community by Amy B. Zegart
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Amy B. Zegart [Zegart, Amy B.]

POLICE PATROL REVISITED: WHAT THE DATA SHOW So much for logic. The next task is to look at the data and ask whether Congress actually does oversee more and differently ...
( Category: Legislative Branch July 19,2022 )
Governing Metropolitan Areas: Response to Growth and Change by David K. Hamilton
epub |eng | 1998-12-01 | Author:David K. Hamilton [Hamilton, David K.]

International Relations Approach to Understanding Metropolitan Areas Political scientists Victor Jones and Matthew Holden were two of the major figures in the application of an international relations analogy to understanding ...
( Category: State July 19,2022 )
Working Congress: A Guide for Senators, Representatives, and Citizens by Robert Mann
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Robert Mann [Mann, Robert]

Congress’s Own Rich History in Electoral Reform Many democratic electoral changes have been passed by members of Congress in U.S. history. Among some of the more notable changes include the ...
( Category: Legislative Branch July 17,2022 )
Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei by Benjamin L. Read
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Benjamin L. Read [Read, Benjamin L.]

NOTE: The outcome variable is a dichotomous measure of the respondent’s participation in the neighborhood, as described in the text.Separate models were estimated for Beijing and Taipei, and not all ...
( Category: State & Local Government July 17,2022 )
Unlocking V.O. Key Jr.: "Southern Politics" for the Twenty-First Century by Angie Maxwell & Todd G. Shields
epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Angie Maxwell & Todd G. Shields [Maxwell, Angie & Shields, Todd G.]

( Category: State July 15,2022 )

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