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Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2006
Legislatures, David C. Docherty, The Canadian Democratic Audit Series; Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005, pp. 224.David Docherty's book, Legislatures, is ambitious both in terms of its comparative perspective and the territory it reviews. The book deals with virtually all important aspects of the Canadian Parliament and provincial legislatures.
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Legislatures, David C. Docherty, The Canadian Democratic Audit Series; Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005, pp. 224.David Docherty's book, Legislatures, is ambitious both in terms of its comparative perspective and the territory it reviews. The book deals with virtually all important aspects of the Canadian Parliament and provincial legislatures.
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2017
Abstract This chapter discusses the composition of Parliament and the State legislatures in India. It examines the qualifications and disqualifications applicable for membership to the legislative branch of government. India is a federal state, with a parliamentary form of government comprised of legislatures at the Union and State ...
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Abstract This chapter discusses the composition of Parliament and the State legislatures in India. It examines the qualifications and disqualifications applicable for membership to the legislative branch of government. India is a federal state, with a parliamentary form of government comprised of legislatures at the Union and State ...
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The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance and to modeling and predicting the behavior ...
Nicole V. Crain, W. Mark Crain
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Nicole V. Crain, W. Mark Crain
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2021
Abstract The chapter examines the structure, operation, and personnel of the legislature. The legislature enacts laws, scrutinizes the executive, and is responsible for the appointment and support of the government. These purposes should inform the selection of its members and determine its relationship to the executive branch; the ...
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Abstract The chapter examines the structure, operation, and personnel of the legislature. The legislature enacts laws, scrutinizes the executive, and is responsible for the appointment and support of the government. These purposes should inform the selection of its members and determine its relationship to the executive branch; the ...
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Journal of Political Economy, 1978
We present a model of the legislature as a union, where in some states the legislative wage is set in the constitution (the analogue to competition) and in others it is set by the legislators (monopoly). We test the implications of the model with respect to relative legislator wages in the two types of states and with respect to other aspects of the ...
McCormick, Robert E, Tollison, Robert D
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We present a model of the legislature as a union, where in some states the legislative wage is set in the constitution (the analogue to competition) and in others it is set by the legislators (monopoly). We test the implications of the model with respect to relative legislator wages in the two types of states and with respect to other aspects of the ...
McCormick, Robert E, Tollison, Robert D
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American Political Science Review, 1992
We construct a stochastic model of a legislature with an endogenously determined seniority system. We model the behavior of the legislators as well as their constituents as an infinitely repeated divide-the-dollar game. The game has a stationary equilibrium with the property that the legislature imposes on itself a non-trivial seniority system, and ...
RICHARD D. MCKELVEY, RAYMOND RIEZMAN
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We construct a stochastic model of a legislature with an endogenously determined seniority system. We model the behavior of the legislators as well as their constituents as an infinitely repeated divide-the-dollar game. The game has a stationary equilibrium with the property that the legislature imposes on itself a non-trivial seniority system, and ...
RICHARD D. MCKELVEY, RAYMOND RIEZMAN
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2023
This chapter discusses the powers that the legislature and individual legislators hold vis-à-vis the president. These powers have been a source of considerable irritation to presidents, especially in the area of budgeting. The chapter then looks at the president's set of specific authorities in dealing with the People's Representative Council (DPR ...
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This chapter discusses the powers that the legislature and individual legislators hold vis-à-vis the president. These powers have been a source of considerable irritation to presidents, especially in the area of budgeting. The chapter then looks at the president's set of specific authorities in dealing with the People's Representative Council (DPR ...
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Citizens' Orientations Toward Legislatures: Congress and the State Legislature
Western Political Quarterly, 1992wo decades ago, Wahlke argued forcefully that research on legislative representation should focus more effort on investigating patterns of public orientations toward representative institutions, mapping "the incidence and variations of support in specific systems," and formulating "hypotheses about its conditions and correlates" (Wahlke 1978: 83).
Samuel C. Patterson +2 more
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