Unfolding Ambition In Senate Primary Elections
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Unfolding Ambition In Senate Primary Elections
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Author : Aaron S. King
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-05-30
Unfolding Ambition In Senate Primary Elections written by Aaron S. King and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-30 with Political Science categories.
This book analyzes strategic candidacy decisions to explain how primary elections for the United States Senate unfold. With new, comprehensive data on pools of potential candidates, it examines the determinants of electoral and fundraising success, analyzes the timing of candidacy decisions, and investigates the impact of strategic retirements.
Exceptions To The Rule
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Author : Molly E. Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2017-07-18
Exceptions To The Rule written by Molly E. Reynolds and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-18 with Political Science categories.
Special rules enable the Senate to act despite the filibuster. Sometimes. Most people believe that, in today's partisan environment, the filibuster prevents the Senate from acting on all but the least controversial matters. But this is not exactly correct. In fact, the Senate since the 1970s has created a series of special rules—described by Molly Reynolds as “majoritarian exceptions”—that limit debate on a wide range of measures on the Senate floor. The details of these exemptions might sound arcane and technical, but in practice they have enabled the Senate to act even when it otherwise seemed paralyzed. Important examples include procedures used to pass the annual congressional budget resolution, enact budget reconciliation bills, review proposals to close military bases, attempt to prevent arms sales, ratify trade agreements, and reconsider regulations promulgated by the executive branch. Reynolds argues that these procedures represent a key instrument of majority party power in the Senate. They allow the majority—even if it does not have the sixty votes needed to block a filibuster—to produce policies that will improve its future electoral prospects, and thus increase the chances it remains the majority party. As a case study, Exceptions to the Rule examines the Senate's role in the budget reconciliation process, in which particular congressional committees are charged with developing procedurally protected proposals to alter certain federal programs in their jurisdictions. Created as a way of helping Congress work through tricky budget issues, the reconciliation process has become a powerful tool for the majority party to bypass the minority and adopt policy changes in hopes that it will benefit in the next election cycle.
What It Takes
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Author : Richard Ben Cramer
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2011-08-02
What It Takes written by Richard Ben Cramer and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-02 with Political Science categories.
Before Game Change there was What It Takes, a ride along the 1988 campaign trail and “possibly the best [book] ever written about an American election” (NPR). Written by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes is “a perfect-pitch rendering of the emotions, the intensity, the anguish, and the emptiness of what may have been the last normal two-party campaign in American history” (Time). An up-close, in-depth look at six candidates—George H. W. “Poppy” Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Richard Gephardt, and Gary Hart—this account of the 1988 US presidential campaign explores a unique moment in history, with details on everything from Bush at the Astrodome to Hart’s Donna Rice scandal. Cramer also addresses the question we find ourselves pondering every four years: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that allows them to throw their hat in the ring as a candidate for leadership of the free world? Exhaustively researched from thousands of hours of interviews, What It Takes creates powerful portraits of these Republican and Democratic contenders, and the consultants, donors, journalists, handlers, and hangers-on who surround them, as they meet, greet, and strategize their way through primary season chasing the nomination, resulting in “a hipped-up amalgam of Teddy White, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). With timeless insight that helps us understand the current state of the nation, this “ultimate insider’s book on presidential politics” explores what helps these people survive, what makes them prosper, what drives them, and ultimately, what drives our government—human beings, in all their flawed glory (San Francisco Chronicle).
Race And Redistricting In The 1990s
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Author : Bernard Grofman
language : en
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Race And Redistricting In The 1990s written by Bernard Grofman and has been published by Algora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Law categories.
A portrait of how the 1990s round of redistricting treated the racial and linguistic minorities that had been given special protections by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, primarily African-Americans, but also Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and those of Spanish heritage. Throughout the volume, the primary focus is on the practical politics of redistricting and its consequences for racial representation. Almost all the authors have been directly involved in the 1990s redistricting process either as a legislator, a member of the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department, a member of a districting commission, or, most commonly, as an expert witness or lawyer in voting rights cases. All bring to bear special insights as well as insider knowledge of Congressional and state redistricting.
No Holds Barred
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Author : Gary L. Rose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
No Holds Barred written by Gary L. Rose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Political Science categories.
One of the surprises in the scholarship of American politics is the rarity of a serious study of a single electoral race. No Holds Barred helps fill this gap. Beginning with the historic retirement announcement by U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, which resulted in an open senate seat in the state of Connecticut, Gary Rose tracks every facet of the tough and exceptionally hard-fought senatorial campaign that unfolded in Connecticut during 2012.
Congressional Record
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Law categories.
The Immediate And Underlying Causes And Consequences Of Kenya S Flawed Election
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Immediate And Underlying Causes And Consequences Of Kenya S Flawed Election written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Democracy categories.
Jfk In The Senate Pathway To The Presidency
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Author : John T. Shaw
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Jfk In The Senate Pathway To The Presidency written by John T. Shaw and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Before John F. Kennedy became a legendary young president he was the junior senator from Massachusetts. The Senate was where JFK's presidential ambitions were born and first realized. In the first book to deal exclusively with JFK's Senate years, author John T. Shaw looks at how the young Senator was able to catapult himself on the national stage. Tip O'Neill once quipped that Kennedy received more publicity for less accomplishment than anyone in Congress. But O'Neill didn't understand that Kennedy saw a different path to congressional influence and ultimately the presidency. Unlike Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic leader in the Senate, JFK never aspired to be "The Master of the Senate" who made deals and kept the institution under his control. Instead, he envisioned himself as a "Historian-Scholar-Statesman" in the mold of his hero Winston Churchill which he realized with the 1957 publication of Profiles of Courage that earned JFK a Pulitzer Prize and public limelight. Smart, dashing, irreverent and literary, the press could not get enough of him. Yet, largely overlooked has been Kennedy's tenure on a special Senate committee to identify the five greatest senators in American history—JFK's work on this special panel coalesced his relationships in Congress, and helped catapult him toward the presidency. Based on primary documents from JFK's Senate years as well as memoirs, oral histories, and interviews with his top aides, JFK in the Senate provides new insight into an underappreciated aspect of his political career.
Congressional Parties Institutional Ambition And The Financing Of Majority Control
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Author : Eric S. Heberlig
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2012-03-21
Congressional Parties Institutional Ambition And The Financing Of Majority Control written by Eric S. Heberlig and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-21 with Political Science categories.
Fundraising for the party has rapidly replaced more traditional criteria for advancement and other rewards in Congress
The Highest Glass Ceiling
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Author : Ellen Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-29
The Highest Glass Ceiling written by Ellen Fitzpatrick and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-29 with Political Science categories.
Best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the Presidency. The arduous, dramatic quests of Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) illuminate today’s political landscape, shedding light on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for the Oval Office.