Lauren C. Bell
ISBN13: 9781604977349
Date: 01-Jan-11
This book remedies the near-complete lack of individual senator-level data available to scholars. Moreover, the dataset that Bell compiles represents a much more comprehensive list of Senate filibusters than any that has previously been compiled. Data are available for the entirety of the period from 1790 to 2008. The text provides a fully current (through the end of the 110th Congress) list of Senate filibusters from the first recorded instance in 1790. This new list undergirds a comprehensive historical analysis of filibusters and a full exploration of both micro-level (individual senator) determinants of filibustering and macro-level (institutional) factors that affect filibustering and its consequences.
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Canada-U.S. Relations in the 21st Century
Greg Anderson and Christopher Sands
ISBN13: 9781604977622
Date: 28-Dec-11
What sets this book apart is how the world’s leading experts on Canada-U.S. relations revisit Charles Doran’s landmark book Forgotten Partnership. Their insights augment the scholarly debate initiated over two decades ago and cast significant light on the present and the future of the two nations and their global impact.
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The Intergovernmental Policy Influence of the National Governors Association
Mitchel Herian
ISBN13: 9781604977295
Date: 28-Nov-10
Current empirical work on the American governorship has generally failed to consider the importance of the governors’ role in helping shape federal policy.This book strives to address this gap in the research literature by focusing on the intergovernmental role of the nation’s governors. This is done by examining the lobbying efforts of the governors through their national organization, the National Governors Association (NGA).
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Shiping Hua
ISBN13: 9781604976328
Date: 28-Dec-09
This is the first book to deal with the relationship between Islam, Muslims, and democratization in the context of Asian cultures from the perspectives of theory and empirical country studies in South, Southeast, and Central Asia. This volume, comprising the perspectives of scholars and practitioners, will be invaluable to those in political science, sociology, and religious studies.
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