Author : Alison W. Craig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009338269
An in-depth study of how members of Congress work together to create policy in a polarized legislature.
Author : E. Scott Adler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393428254
"Meet your new Congress text. Scott Adler, Jeffery Jenkins, and Charles Shipan use insights from political science to explain how today's Congress really works. What's inside? : "How We Study Congress" sections that ask students to engage with contemporary research to understand how we know what we know about Congress ; "Then and Now" sections that place the contemporary Congress in historical context ; provocative questions for discussion and review ; analysis of Congress during the Trump administration and insights on the 2018 and 2020 elections and their impact on the modern Congress."--taken from back cover.
Author : Rosemary O'Leary
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589015843
Today’s public managers not only have to function as leaders within their agencies, they must also establish and coordinate multi-organizational networks of other public agencies, private contractors, and the public. This important transformation has been the subject of an explosion of research in recent years. The Collaborative Public Manager brings together original contributions by some of today’s top public management and public policy scholars who address cutting-edge issues that affect government managers worldwide. State-of-the-art empirical research reveals why and how public managers collaborate and how they motivate others to do the same. Examining tough issues such as organizational design and performance, resource sharing, and contracting, the contributors draw lessons from real-life situations as they provide tools to meet the challenges of managing conflict within interorganizational, interpersonal networks. This book pushes scholars, students, and professionals to rethink what they know about collaborative public management—and to strive harder to achieve its full potential.
Author : Kelly Dittmar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190915757
The presence of women in Congress is at an all-time high -- approximately one of every five members is female -- and record numbers of women are running for public office for the 2018 midterms. At the same time, Congress is more polarized than ever, and little research exists on how women in Congress view their experiences and contributions to American politics today. Drawing on personal interviews with over three-quarters of the women serving in the 114th Congress (2015-17), the authors analyze how these women navigate today's stark partisan divisions, and whether they feel effective in their jobs. Through first-person perspectives, A Seat at the Table looks at what motivates these women's legislative priorities and behavior, details the ways in which women experience service within a male-dominated institution, and highlights why it matters that women sit in the nation's federal legislative chambers. It describes the strategies women employ to overcome any challenges they confront as well as the opportunities available to them. The book examines how gender interacts with political party, race and ethnicity, seniority, chamber, and district characteristics to shape women's representational influence and behavior, finding that party and race/ethnicity are the two most complicating factors to a singular narrative of women's congressional representation. While congresswomen's perspectives, experiences, and influence are neither uniform nor interchangeable, they strongly believe their presence matters in myriad ways, affecting congressional culture, priorities, processes, debates, and outcomes.
Author : Daniel Lathrop
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2010-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1449388809
In a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness? Through a collection of essays and case studies, leading visionaries and practitioners both inside and outside of government share their ideas on how to achieve and direct this emerging world of online collaboration, transparency, and participation. Contributions and topics include: Beth Simone Noveck, U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for open government, "The Single Point of Failure" Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, "All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data" Aaron Swartz, cofounder of reddit.com, OpenLibrary.org, and BoldProgressives.org, "When Is Transparency Useful?" Ellen S. Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, "Disrupting Washington's Golden Rule" Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, "By the People" Douglas Schuler, president of the Public Sphere Project, "Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence" Howard Dierking, program manager on Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet Web platform team, "Engineering Good Government" Matthew Burton, Web entrepreneur and former intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, "A Peace Corps for Programmers" Gary D. Bass and Sean Moulton, OMB Watch, "Bringing the Web 2.0 Revolution to Government" Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, "Defining Government 2.0: Lessons Learned from the Success of Computer Platforms" Open Government editors: Daniel Lathrop is a former investigative projects reporter with the Seattle Post Intelligencer who's covered politics in Washington state, Iowa, Florida, and Washington D.C. He's a specialist in campaign finance and "computer-assisted reporting" -- the practice of using data analysis to report the news. Laurel Ruma is the Gov 2.0 Evangelist at O'Reilly Media. She is also co-chair for the Gov 2.0 Expo.
Author : Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300249616
An introduction to the U.S. Congress, from seasoned political historians and teachers In this accessible overview of the United States Congress’s past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country’s most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative process, Congress and the President, and Congress and the courts. Congress: The First Branch offers a fresh approach to the First Branch grounded in a historical, positive frame.
Author : Tiffany Barnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107143195
Using interview evidence and archival data from Argentina, the book examines why and when women collaborate in Congress.
Author : Kristina C. Miler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108473504
The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.
Author : Robin Phinney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107170362
This book develops a new theory of collaborative lobbying and influence to explain how antipoverty advocates gain influence in American social policymaking.
Author : Peter Esaiasson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814208397
This text begins by setting the Scandinavian parliaments in their historical and national settings. It goes on to analyse political representation, parliamentary organization, parliamentary decision-making and considers the relations between the national parliaments and the larger European setting.
