The Dance of Legislation : An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate / / Eric Redman ; with a new foreword by Richard E. Neustadt and a new postscript by the author
| The Dance of Legislation : An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate / / Eric Redman ; with a new foreword by Richard E. Neustadt and a new postscript by the author |
| Autore | Redman Eric |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J. : , : University of Washington Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Soggetto topico |
Legislation
Legislation - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-295-80101-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | First stirrings -- Beginner's lessons -- Getting serious -- Fresh start -- S. 4106, born or stillborn? -- Senate hearing -- Decision in the Senate -- Loose ends -- Interlude -- Doctors in the house -- War of nerves -- New Year's resolution. |
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The Dance of Legislation : An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate / / Eric Redman ; with a new foreword by Richard E. Neustadt and a new postscript by the author
| The Dance of Legislation : An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate / / Eric Redman ; with a new foreword by Richard E. Neustadt and a new postscript by the author |
| Autore | Redman Eric |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J. : , : University of Washington Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Soggetto topico |
Legislation
Legislation - United States |
| ISBN | 0-295-80101-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | First stirrings -- Beginner's lessons -- Getting serious -- Fresh start -- S. 4106, born or stillborn? -- Senate hearing -- Decision in the Senate -- Loose ends -- Interlude -- Doctors in the house -- War of nerves -- New Year's resolution. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797900203321 |
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| Princeton, N.J. : , : University of Washington Press, , 2000 | ||
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The devil is in the details : understanding the causes of policy specificity and ambiguity / / Rachel VanSickle-Ward
| The devil is in the details : understanding the causes of policy specificity and ambiguity / / Rachel VanSickle-Ward |
| Autore | VanSickle-Ward Rachel <1977-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Soggetto topico |
Legislation - United States
Public policy (Law) - United States Legislative bodies - United States - States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4384-4924-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""The Devil is in the Details: Understanding the Causes of Policy Specificity and Ambiguity""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction: The Political Story of Policy Precision""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity""; ""The Language of Law""; ""Social Policy in the States""; ""Overview of the Book""; ""Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Statute Specificity""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity in the Judicial Context""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity in the Bureaucratic Context""; ""Bureaucracy Research in the States""
""A Conditional Theory of Statute Specificity""""Salience in the Conditional Model""; ""Assessing Specificity and Salience""; ""Sources of Fragmentation""; ""Party Control and Polarization""; ""Interest Group Density and Diversity""; ""Gubernatorial Powers""; ""Speaker's Power""; ""Capacity Variables: Legislative and Bureaucratic Professionalization and Term Limits""; ""Summary of Hypotheses""; ""Chapter 3: Perspectives of Policy-Making Elites""; ""Methodology""; ""Overcoming Fragmentation: Compromise through Ambiguity""; ""The Role of Committees""; ""Interest Groups and Stakeholders"" ""Partisan Conflict""""The Role of the Executive""; ""Alternatives for Overcoming Fragmentation: Compromise through Specificity""; ""The Role of Interest Groups Revisited""; ""Fragmentation and Protecting the Status Quo""; ""Committee Pressure for More Specificity""; ""Specificity and Negotiations with the Executive Branch""; ""Resources and Procedural Factors: Term limits, Turnover, and Time Constraints""; ""How Salience Shapes Strategy: Articulating the Conditional Model""; ""Something Old and Something New""; ""Conclusion"" ""Chapter 4: Policy Specificity in a High-Salience Context: Mental Health Parity""""Mental Health Insurance""; ""Specificity in State Mental Health Parity Statutes""; ""Political and Institutional Fragmentation""; ""Findings""; ""Chapter 5: Policy Specificity in a Low-Salience Context: Individual Development Accounts""; ""Individual Development Accounts""; ""Assessing Specificity in IDA Bills""; ""Sources of Fragmentation (Independent Variables)""; ""Findings""; ""Evidence for the Conditional Model of Fragmentation"" ""Chapter 6: Fragmentation and Policy Specificity in California Legislation""""The California Policy-Making Environment""; ""Institutional Conditions""; ""Political Conditions""; ""Bill-Specific Variables""; ""California Social Policy""; ""Health Policy""; ""Welfare Policy""; ""Methodology""; ""Measurement of the Dependent Variable: Recalibrating Statute Specificity""; ""Hypotheses""; ""Findings""; ""Descriptive Findings""; ""Multivariate Analyses""; ""The Conditional Effects of Salience""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 7: Conclusion""; ""Review of Findings""; ""Normative Implications"" ""Directions for Future Research"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464905303321 |
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| Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014 | ||
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The devil is in the details : understanding the causes of policy specificity and ambiguity / / Rachel VanSickle-Ward
| The devil is in the details : understanding the causes of policy specificity and ambiguity / / Rachel VanSickle-Ward |
| Autore | VanSickle-Ward Rachel <1977-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Soggetto topico |
Legislation - United States
Public policy (Law) - United States Legislative bodies - United States - States |
| ISBN | 1-4384-4924-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""The Devil is in the Details: Understanding the Causes of Policy Specificity and Ambiguity""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction: The Political Story of Policy Precision""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity""; ""The Language of Law""; ""Social Policy in the States""; ""Overview of the Book""; ""Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Statute Specificity""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity in the Judicial Context""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity in the Bureaucratic Context""; ""Bureaucracy Research in the States""
""A Conditional Theory of Statute Specificity""""Salience in the Conditional Model""; ""Assessing Specificity and Salience""; ""Sources of Fragmentation""; ""Party Control and Polarization""; ""Interest Group Density and Diversity""; ""Gubernatorial Powers""; ""Speaker's Power""; ""Capacity Variables: Legislative and Bureaucratic Professionalization and Term Limits""; ""Summary of Hypotheses""; ""Chapter 3: Perspectives of Policy-Making Elites""; ""Methodology""; ""Overcoming Fragmentation: Compromise through Ambiguity""; ""The Role of Committees""; ""Interest Groups and Stakeholders"" ""Partisan Conflict""""The Role of the Executive""; ""Alternatives for Overcoming Fragmentation: Compromise through Specificity""; ""The Role of Interest Groups Revisited""; ""Fragmentation and Protecting the Status Quo""; ""Committee Pressure for More Specificity""; ""Specificity and Negotiations with the Executive Branch""; ""Resources and Procedural Factors: Term limits, Turnover, and Time Constraints""; ""How Salience Shapes Strategy: Articulating the Conditional Model""; ""Something Old and Something New""; ""Conclusion"" ""Chapter 4: Policy Specificity in a High-Salience Context: Mental Health Parity""""Mental Health Insurance""; ""Specificity in State Mental Health Parity Statutes""; ""Political and Institutional Fragmentation""; ""Findings""; ""Chapter 5: Policy Specificity in a Low-Salience Context: Individual Development Accounts""; ""Individual Development Accounts""; ""Assessing Specificity in IDA Bills""; ""Sources of Fragmentation (Independent Variables)""; ""Findings""; ""Evidence for the Conditional Model of Fragmentation"" ""Chapter 6: Fragmentation and Policy Specificity in California Legislation""""The California Policy-Making Environment""; ""Institutional Conditions""; ""Political Conditions""; ""Bill-Specific Variables""; ""California Social Policy""; ""Health Policy""; ""Welfare Policy""; ""Methodology""; ""Measurement of the Dependent Variable: Recalibrating Statute Specificity""; ""Hypotheses""; ""Findings""; ""Descriptive Findings""; ""Multivariate Analyses""; ""The Conditional Effects of Salience""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 7: Conclusion""; ""Review of Findings""; ""Normative Implications"" ""Directions for Future Research"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789034303321 |
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| Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014 | ||
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The devil is in the details : understanding the causes of policy specificity and ambiguity / / Rachel VanSickle-Ward
| The devil is in the details : understanding the causes of policy specificity and ambiguity / / Rachel VanSickle-Ward |
| Autore | VanSickle-Ward Rachel <1977-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Soggetto topico |
Legislation - United States
Public policy (Law) - United States Legislative bodies - United States - States |
| ISBN | 1-4384-4924-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""The Devil is in the Details: Understanding the Causes of Policy Specificity and Ambiguity""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction: The Political Story of Policy Precision""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity""; ""The Language of Law""; ""Social Policy in the States""; ""Overview of the Book""; ""Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Statute Specificity""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity in the Judicial Context""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity in the Bureaucratic Context""; ""Bureaucracy Research in the States""
""A Conditional Theory of Statute Specificity""""Salience in the Conditional Model""; ""Assessing Specificity and Salience""; ""Sources of Fragmentation""; ""Party Control and Polarization""; ""Interest Group Density and Diversity""; ""Gubernatorial Powers""; ""Speaker's Power""; ""Capacity Variables: Legislative and Bureaucratic Professionalization and Term Limits""; ""Summary of Hypotheses""; ""Chapter 3: Perspectives of Policy-Making Elites""; ""Methodology""; ""Overcoming Fragmentation: Compromise through Ambiguity""; ""The Role of Committees""; ""Interest Groups and Stakeholders"" ""Partisan Conflict""""The Role of the Executive""; ""Alternatives for Overcoming Fragmentation: Compromise through Specificity""; ""The Role of Interest Groups Revisited""; ""Fragmentation and Protecting the Status Quo""; ""Committee Pressure for More Specificity""; ""Specificity and Negotiations with the Executive Branch""; ""Resources and Procedural Factors: Term limits, Turnover, and Time Constraints""; ""How Salience Shapes Strategy: Articulating the Conditional Model""; ""Something Old and Something New""; ""Conclusion"" ""Chapter 4: Policy Specificity in a High-Salience Context: Mental Health Parity""""Mental Health Insurance""; ""Specificity in State Mental Health Parity Statutes""; ""Political and Institutional Fragmentation""; ""Findings""; ""Chapter 5: Policy Specificity in a Low-Salience Context: Individual Development Accounts""; ""Individual Development Accounts""; ""Assessing Specificity in IDA Bills""; ""Sources of Fragmentation (Independent Variables)""; ""Findings""; ""Evidence for the Conditional Model of Fragmentation"" ""Chapter 6: Fragmentation and Policy Specificity in California Legislation""""The California Policy-Making Environment""; ""Institutional Conditions""; ""Political Conditions""; ""Bill-Specific Variables""; ""California Social Policy""; ""Health Policy""; ""Welfare Policy""; ""Methodology""; ""Measurement of the Dependent Variable: Recalibrating Statute Specificity""; ""Hypotheses""; ""Findings""; ""Descriptive Findings""; ""Multivariate Analyses""; ""The Conditional Effects of Salience""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 7: Conclusion""; ""Review of Findings""; ""Normative Implications"" ""Directions for Future Research"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816641503321 |
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| Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014 | ||
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How laws are made in the U.S.A [[electronic resource] /] / Helen Maes, editor
| How laws are made in the U.S.A [[electronic resource] /] / Helen Maes, editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MaesHelen |
| Collana | Laws and legislation series |
| Soggetto topico | Legislation - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-62100-317-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | How our laws are made / John V. Sullivan -- The Congressional Research Service and the American legislative process / Ida A. Brudnick -- Engrossment, enrollment, and presentation of legislation / R. Eric Petersen -- Enrollment of legislation : relevant congressional procedures / Valerie Heitshusen -- Legislative process : how a Senate bill becomes a law -- Introducing a House bill or resolution / Betsy Palmer -- Introducing a Senate bill or resolution / Betsy Palmer -- Office of Legislative Counsel : House / Matthew E. Glassman -- Office of Legislative Counsel : Senate / Matthew E. Glassman -- Resolving legislative differences in congress : conference committees and amendments between the houses / Elizabeth Rybicki -- Sources of legislative proposals : a descriptive introduction / Judy Schneider -- Sponsorship and cosponsorship of House bills / Betsy Palmer -- Sponsorship and co-sponsorship of Senate bills / Betsy Palmer -- The amending process in the House of Representatives / Christopher B. Davis -- The amending process in the Senate / Betsy Palmer. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456618603321 |
| New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010 | ||
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How laws are made in the U.S.A [[electronic resource] /] / Helen Maes, editor
| How laws are made in the U.S.A [[electronic resource] /] / Helen Maes, editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MaesHelen |
| Collana | Laws and legislation series |
| Soggetto topico | Legislation - United States |
| ISBN | 1-62100-317-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | How our laws are made / John V. Sullivan -- The Congressional Research Service and the American legislative process / Ida A. Brudnick -- Engrossment, enrollment, and presentation of legislation / R. Eric Petersen -- Enrollment of legislation : relevant congressional procedures / Valerie Heitshusen -- Legislative process : how a Senate bill becomes a law -- Introducing a House bill or resolution / Betsy Palmer -- Introducing a Senate bill or resolution / Betsy Palmer -- Office of Legislative Counsel : House / Matthew E. Glassman -- Office of Legislative Counsel : Senate / Matthew E. Glassman -- Resolving legislative differences in congress : conference committees and amendments between the houses / Elizabeth Rybicki -- Sources of legislative proposals : a descriptive introduction / Judy Schneider -- Sponsorship and cosponsorship of House bills / Betsy Palmer -- Sponsorship and co-sponsorship of Senate bills / Betsy Palmer -- The amending process in the House of Representatives / Christopher B. Davis -- The amending process in the Senate / Betsy Palmer. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781660303321 |
| New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010 | ||
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Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory Wawro
| Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory Wawro |
| Autore | Wawro Gregory |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor, MI, USA, : University of Michigan Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Soggetto topico |
Legislators - United States
Bills, Legislative - United States Legislation - United States Entrepreneurship - United States LAW General Government - U.S Law, Politics & Government Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., Legislative Branch |
| ISBN |
1-282-88293-7
9786612882937 0-472-02248-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458404703321 |
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| Ann Arbor, MI, USA, : University of Michigan Press, 2010 | ||
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Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory Wawro
| Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory Wawro |
| Autore | Wawro Gregory |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor, MI, USA, : University of Michigan Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Soggetto topico |
Legislators - United States
Bills, Legislative - United States Legislation - United States Entrepreneurship - United States LAW General Government - U.S Law, Politics & Government Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., Legislative Branch |
| ISBN |
1-282-88293-7
9786612882937 0-472-02248-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791663703321 |
Wawro Gregory
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| Ann Arbor, MI, USA, : University of Michigan Press, 2010 | ||
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Stalemate [[electronic resource] ] : causes and consequences of legislative gridlock / / Sarah A. Binder
| Stalemate [[electronic resource] ] : causes and consequences of legislative gridlock / / Sarah A. Binder |
| Autore | Binder Sarah A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
| Disciplina | 328.73/077 |
| Soggetto topico | Voting - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8157-0909-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Stalemate in legislative politics -- Unintended consequences of constitutional design -- Measuring the frequency of stalemate -- Institutional and electoral sources of stalemate -- What drives legislative action? -- Consequences of stalemate. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455835403321 |
Binder Sarah A
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| Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2003 | ||
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