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Alternative Route to Voting Reform: the Right to Vote, Voter Registration, Redistricting and U.S. State Constitutions.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Publius: The Journal of Federalism; Summer2019, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p465-489, 25p, 3 Maps
Abstract: Copyright of Publius: The Journal of Federalism is the property of Oxford University Press / USA and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, ...
Taking Chances in Making Legislative Committee Requests: A Four State Comparison.
Publication Type: Conference
Source(s): Conference Papers -- Western Political Science Association. 2012, preceding p1-41. 55p.
Abstract: Political Scientists have long been interested in the committee request/assignment process and the behavior of individual legislators associated with it. Previous state-level research focusing on individual states and a single session has demonstrated ...
Gaining Requested Committees in a State Legislature: The Effects of Prior Legislative Service.
Publication Type: Conference
Source(s): Conference Papers -- Northeastern Political Science Association. 2011, p1-48. 48p. 10 Charts.
Abstract: A conference paper about the special effects of legislative experience is presented. It further evaluates the effects of complex risk-taking measures for experienced legislators based on their previous committee positioning regarding their current comm...
Limiting the Evolutionary Path: Explaining Constitutional and Statutory Entrenchment in State Legislatures.
Publication Type: Conference
Source(s): Conference Papers -- American Political Science Association. 2011, preceding p1-20. 29p.
Abstract: Previous research (Martorano Miller, Hedlund and Hamm 2009; 2010) has shown that at the state level, legislative structure and procedure can be dictated to a large degree by constitutional and statutory law. Additionally, a measure of this entrenchment...
The Impact of Situational Factors on Committee Request and Assignment Behavior: Does Context Matter?
Publication Type: Conference
Source(s): Conference Papers -- New England Political Science Association. 2010, p1-53. 53p. 8 Charts.
Abstract: Committees are considered integral to the legislative process, with committee formation and organization as ongoing and vital concerns for political science research. Theoretical as well as empirical research has examined this process. Since the practi...
Partisan Stacking on Legislative Committees.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Legislative Studies Quarterly. May2009, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p175-191. 17p.
Abstract: One aspect of the partisan model for legislative committee development that is rarely studied is the degree to which the majority party seeks to control legislative committees—and, thereby, chamber decisions—via numerically "overproportional" majority ...
Paths, Events and Strategic Choices: The Evolution of American State Legislatures.
Publication Type: Conference
Source(s): Conference Papers -- American Political Science Association. 2009, preceding p1-38. 38p.
Abstract: American state legislatures have evolved dramatically throughout their history (Squire and Hamm 2005). In particular, the structures, rules and procedures governing the operations legislatures have changed significantly over the course of the 20th and ...
Political Parties as Vehicles for Organizing U.S. State Legislative Committees.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Legislative Studies Quarterly. Aug96, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p383-408. 26p. 7 Charts.
Abstract: Assesses the role of political parties in organizing state legislative committees in the U.S. Evaluation of majority party representation (MPR); Control over the appointment of its members in legislative committees; Relationship between MPR and in the...
Electoral Reforms, Membership Stability and the Existence of Committee Property Rights in American State Legislatures.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): British Journal of Political Science; Jan2005, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p169-181, 13p
Abstract: This article discusses various issues related to electoral reforms, membership stability and the existence of committee property rights in American state legislatures. The article author finds little evidence that committee property rights appeared in ...
Did They Ever Return? The Development of a Committee Property Rights Norm in State Legislatures During the Twentieth Century.
Publication Type: Conference
Source(s): Conference Papers -- American Political Science Association. 2008 Annual Meeting, p1. 65p. 6 Charts, 15 Graphs.
Abstract: The article investigates the impact of organizational or institutional variables on the reappointment of members to U.S. state legislative committees throughout the 20th century. The extent to which institutional structures and political party competit...