A Model State Legislature
Author | : George William Norris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Legislative bodies |
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Author | : George William Norris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Legislative bodies |
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Author | : William Gates LeDuc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Minnesota |
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Author | : New York State Model Legislature of Youth, College of the City of New York, 1938 |
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Release | : 1938 |
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Author | : Boris Shor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
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Two problems hinder the ability of scholars to assess the quality of representation of state-level public opinion by elected representatives. First, the main tool measuring ideology in public opinion has historically been self-reported, but this is now well known to be severely plagued by measurement error. Second, and far more binding, we lack a common scale on which to place both constituents and representatives. While the literature has addressed a number of methods estimating a common space for politicians' ideal points across political institutions, little work exists that incorporates citizens into this space. The unified methodology in this paper solves both problems in order to assess representation of constituents by their individual state legislators, the parties in the state legislatures, and the state legislature as a whole. Bridging is accomplished using policy preference questions from a state and congressional candidate survey administered since the early 1990s. I ask those questions in my own 2008 survey of over 4,200 citizen respondents, representative at the state and national levels. Thus, citizens and state legislators can be located on the same ideological scale. I employ multilevel regression with poststratification to model state-level public ideology and obtain aggregate opinion estimates for all 50 states and 1942 upper chamber state legislative districts. State legislators and chamber and party medians are responsive to public opinion, but they are very often incongruent to it. Democrats and Republicans diverge from district and state opinion, but in an asymmetric fashion, with Republicans considerably more distant.
Author | : Franklin L. Kury |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2014-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0761864636 |
Why Are You Here?: A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens is a challenge to America’s 7,382 state legislators and their constituents to critically examine their state legislature and take appropriate action to improve it. This is a handbook telling how legislatures came to be, how they function, and discussing how they have fallen in public esteem. The book provides an analytical discussion for evaluating how any legislature deals with four issues: personal greed, criminal and ethical scandal, the influence of money and lobbying, and self-serving legislative seat apportionment. The last section is a “Legislative Toolbox” that provides information helpful in evaluating legislatures and readings of a patriotic nature that enhance idealism and spirit.
Author | : Susan J. Carroll |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2013-09-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199322430 |
This book advances a new approach for understanding women's election to office, proposing a relationally embedded model of candidate emergence. Analyzing nationwide surveys of state legislators, the authors challenge assumptions of a single model of candidate emergence and the necessity for women to assimilate to men's pathways to office.
Author | : Malcolm E. Jewell |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2021-03-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0813156165 |
Every two years American voters turn out to elect several thousand representatives to state legislatures. Only now in Representation in State Legislatures do we have a detailed examination of how these officials perceive their jobs and how they attempt to do them. To provide answers to these questions, Malcolm E. Jewell conducted intensive interviews with 220 members of houses of representatives in nine selected states. He asked each legislator how he kept in touch with his constituents, how he resolved matters of policy, how he sought government resources for his district, and what services he provided for individual constituents. State legislatures differ greatly, and they are not institutionalized to the same degree as the national congress. It is difficult, therefore, to generalize on such effects as partisanship. Likewise it appears that past explanatory models do not adequately describe the complex relationships seen by most legislators in their work. The state legislature is changing. It is becoming more institutionalized. It is becoming more stable as fewer members retire and more are reelected. The trend is toward longer sessions, increased staff, and more activity. With this trend the legislator is becoming more visible; he can deal with lawmaking while having greater opportunities to provide services and to gain publicity for them. As the move, begun by the Reagan administration, to put more responsibility for programs on the states continues, the state legislatures will assume a place of greater importance in the governing of the United States. This pioneering study of representation will thereby gain significance both for the understanding it imparts and for the new questions it raises.
Author | : Arthur Eugene Buck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Legislative bodies |
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Author | : National Municipal League. Committee on State Government |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Constitutions |
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Author | : William Klein |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 1998-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0788170325 |