Author: Thomas L. W. Johnson
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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Kansas Voter's Guide, 1958
Author: Thomas L. W. Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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Publisher:
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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Kansas Voter's Guide, 1956
Kansas Voter's Guide
Author:
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Reforming Legislatures
Author: Peverill Squire
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826275036
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826275036
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
Economic Development in South Central Kansas
Author: University of Kansas. Center for Research in Business
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Publisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Economic Development in South Central Kansas
Extension of Municipal Services to Fringe Areas (by Kansas Cities with More Than 10,000 Population)
Author: Eugene H. Denton
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Category : Municipal powers and services beyond corporate limits
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Municipal powers and services beyond corporate limits
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Social and Cultural Features
Author: Mary Harper Wortham
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Publisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Government and Natural Resources in Kansas
Author: Marvin Meade
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Publisher:
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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