Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress

Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
Title Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress PDF eBook
Author Craig Volden
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 261
Release 2014-10-27
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0521761522

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This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

Global Lawmakers

Global Lawmakers
Title Global Lawmakers PDF eBook
Author Susan Block-Lieb
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 481
Release 2017-10-26
Genre Law
ISBN 1107187583

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Lawmaking by international organizations has enormous influence over world trade and national economies. This book explores who makes that law and how.

Legislators, Leaders, and Lawmaking

Legislators, Leaders, and Lawmaking
Title Legislators, Leaders, and Lawmaking PDF eBook
Author Barbara Sinclair
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 362
Release 1998-06-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780801857126

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Recently plagued by gridlock, huge deficits, and deep policy differences, Congress has often been the target of relentless and bitter criticism. Asking how the House performs its legislative functions in such a context, political scientist Barbara Sinclair traces the emergence of a House majority party leadership that is highly active and deeply involved in multiple aspects of the legislative process.

Freedom’s Lawmakers

Freedom’s Lawmakers
Title Freedom’s Lawmakers PDF eBook
Author Eric Foner
Publisher LSU Press
Pages 0
Release 1996-08-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0807120820

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With Freedom's Lawmakers, Eric Foner has assembled the first comprehensive directory of the over 1,500 African Americans who held political office in the South during the Reconstruction era. He has compiled an impressive amount of information about the antebellum status, occupations, property ownership, and military service of these officials -- who range from U.S. congressmen to local justices of the peace and constables. This revised paperback edition also contains new material on forty-five officials who were not included in the first edition.In his Introduction, Foner ably analyzes and interprets the roles of the black American officeholders. Concise biographies, in alphabetical order, trace the life histories of individuals -- many previously unknown -- who played important parts in the politics of the period. This useful and informative volume also includes an index by state, by occupation, by office during Reconstruction, by birth status, and by topic.

Laws and Lawmakers

Laws and Lawmakers
Title Laws and Lawmakers PDF eBook
Author Marc Lange
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 277
Release 2009-07-09
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 019974503X

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What distinguishes laws of nature from ordinary facts? What are the "lawmakers": the facts in virtue of which the laws are laws? How can laws be necessary, yet contingent? Lange provocatively argues that laws are distinguished by their necessity, which is grounded in primitive subjunctive facts, while also providing a non-technical and accessible survey of the field.

The Rise of the Representative

The Rise of the Representative
Title The Rise of the Representative PDF eBook
Author Peverill Squire
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 345
Release 2017-07-06
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0472130390

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Uncovers the roots of the American political system: the development of colonial representative assemblies

How Our Laws are Made

How Our Laws are Made
Title How Our Laws are Made PDF eBook
Author John V. Sullivan
Publisher
Pages 72
Release 2007
Genre Government publications
ISBN

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