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The Senate and American Federalism

American Political Science Review, 1955
At Philadelphia in 1787 the authors of the Constitution invented a new kind of federalism. In previous federal governments, the participating states were no more intimate than permanent allies, and citizens retained a primary loyalty to local governments.
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Dimensions of Federalism in U.S. Senate Voting, 1981-1982

CrossRef Listing of Deleted DOIs, 1989
The concept offederalism is important in political science; yet it has proven difficult to clarify and to use in empirical analyses of American political institutions. This analysis demonstrates that the congressional federalism scores reported in Publius are not unidimensional and that a better measure of federalism can result in improved explanatory ...
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Bicameralism in a Federation: An Historical Analysis of Role of Senate in Promoting Federalism in Pakistan

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Bicameralism is an essential feature of federalism. It is indispensable for a federation to safeguard the rights of smaller units and to accommodate the diversity in the legislature. For this purpose, the upper house of the bicameral legislature, known variously including the Senate, provides a feasible platform to the units for representation on the ...
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Senate Bill Would Authorize, Encourage Federal ADR Use

Alternatives To the High Cost of Litigation, 1988
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Discourse, Identity and Reproductive Rights at Federal Senate

2020
This article is dedicated to the analysis of discourses  from three interactive public hearings on Suggestion no. 15 of 2014, which "provides for the decriminalization of abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy by the unified health system ”“ SUS”.We are concerned with the perception that the debating people have of women and their bodies in the
Coêlho Santana, Jaqueline, Magalhães, Izabel   +1 more
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The U.S. Senate and Federalism Policy in the 96th and 97th Congresses

CrossRef Listing of Deleted DOIs, 1987
Although the Congress of the United States has a major influence on American federalism, there has been little systematic attention given to what factors influence congressional voting on federalism issues. This article is an initial effort to address this question.
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Geographic representation and requests for federal funds in the U.S. senate

Legislative Studies Quarterly
Abstract An essential component of a representative's job centers on deciding where to allocate scarce resources. How do legislators attempt to allocate spending across the geographic units of their constituencies, and what determines a legislator's success in securing these resources?
Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Andrew R. Stone
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All the President's Senators: Presidential Copartisans and the Allocation of Federal Grants

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2016
Previous scholarship argues that House members' partisan relationship to the president is among the most important determinants of the share of federal dollars they bring home to their constituents. Do presidential politics also shape distributive outcomes in the Senate?
Dino P. Christenson, Douglas L. Kriner, Andrew Reeves   +2 more
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Improving Management in the Federal Government: 1984 Senate Hearings

Public Administration Review, 1985
I am pleased that a review of Senate hearings on improving management in the federal executive departments leads off your new TOPSThose Other Publications-feature of the Public Administration Review. The hearings were called at my request by Senator Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Service, Post Office and General Services, Senate ...
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Senatorial Discourtesy: The Senate's Use of Delay to Shape the Federal Judiciary

Political Research Quarterly, 2002
Legislators have long recognized that delaying tactics are powerful tools for preventing the passage of laws they deem unsatisfactory. Because the U.S. Congress has several deadlines built into its session, when committee chairmen or individual members delay the scheduling of hearings, markups, or executive business meetings, it can have a devastating ...
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