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Author: United States. Congress Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781979855266 Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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Legislative proposals for fostering transparency : hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, March 23, 2017.
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781979855266 Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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Legislative proposals for fostering transparency : hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, March 23, 2017.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Publisher: ISBN: Category : Freedom of information Languages : en Pages : 108
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Publisher: ISBN: Category : Freedom of information Languages : en Pages : 0
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Publisher: ISBN: Category : Legislative oversight Languages : en Pages : 256
Author: Peverill Squire Publisher: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 0826275036 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 456
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Legislatures are ubiquitous in the American political experience. First created in Virginia in 1619, they have existed continuously ever since. Indeed, they were established in even the most unlikely of places, notably in sparsely populated frontier settlements, and functioned as the focal point of every governing system devised. Despite the ubiquity of state legislatures, we know remarkably little about how Americans have viewed them as organizations, in terms of their structures, rules, and procedures. But with the rise of modern public opinion surveys in the twentieth century, we now have extensive data on how Americans have gauged legislative performance throughout the many years. That said, the responses to the questions pollsters typically pose reflect partisanship, policy, and personality. Generally, respondents respond favorably to legislatures controlled by their own political party and those in power during good economic times. Incumbent lawmakers get ratings boosts from having personalities, “home styles” that mesh with those of their constituents. These relationships are important indicators of people’s thoughts regarding the current performance of their legislatures and legislators, but they tell us nothing about attitudes toward the institution and its organizational characteristics. This study offers a unique perspective on what American voters have historically thought about legislatures as organizations and legislators as representatives. Rather than focusing on responses to surveys that ask respondents how they rate the current performance of lawmakers and legislatures, this study leverages the most significant difference between national and state politics: the existence of ballot propositions in the latter. At the national level Americans have never had any say over Congress’s structure, rules, or procedures. In contrast, at the state level they have had ample opportunities over the course of more than two centuries to shape their state legislatures. The data examined here look at how people have voted on more than 1,500 state ballot propositions targeting a wide array of legislative organizational and parliamentary features. By linking the votes on these measures with the public debates preceding them, this study documents not only how American viewed various aspects of their legislatures, but also whether their opinions held constant or shifted over time. The findings reported paint a more nuanced picture of Americans’ attitudes toward legislatures than the prevailing one derived from survey research. When presented with legislative reform measures on which concrete choices were offered and decisions on them had to be made, the analyses presented here reveal that, counter to the conventional wisdom that people loved their representatives but hated the legislature, voters usually took charitable positions toward the institution while harboring skeptical attitudes about lawmakers’ motives and behaviors.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 152
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Author: Publisher: International Monetary Fund ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 135
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264445714 Category : Languages : en Pages : 97
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This report examines the process for developing the Lithuania’s National Anticorruption Programme (NAPC) for 2022-2033. It assesses the NAPC’s past accomplishments as well as challenges in priority areas, and draws lessons for the coming period.
Author: Frank J. Thompson Publisher: Georgetown University Press ISBN: 1589019342 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 289
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Medicaid, one of the largest federal programs in the United States, gives grants to states to provide health insurance for over 60 million low-income Americans. As private health insurance benefits have relentlessly eroded, the program has played an increasingly important role. Yet Medicaid’s prominence in the health care arena has come as a surprise. Many astute observers of the Medicaid debate have long claimed that “a program for the poor is a poor program� prone to erosion because it serves a stigmatized, politically weak clientele. Means-tested programs for the poor are often politically unpopular, and there is pressure from fiscally conservative lawmakers to scale back the $350-billion-per-year program even as more and more Americans have come to rely on it. For their part, health reformers had long assumed that Medicaid would fade away as the country moved toward universal health insurance. Instead, Medicaid has proved remarkably durable, expanding and becoming a major pillar of America’s health insurance system. In Medicaid Politics, political scientist Frank J. Thompson examines the program’s profound evolution during the presidential administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and its pivotal role in the epic health reform law of 2010. This clear and accessible book details the specific forces embedded in American federalism that contributed so much to Medicaid’s growth and durability during this period. It also looks to the future outlining the political dynamics that could yield major program retrenchment.
Author: United States. Congress
Author: United States. Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Author: Peverill Squire
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises
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Author: OECD
Author: Frank J. Thompson