Author: M. C. Maguire Mangold
Publisher:
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Category : Higher education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Patricia A. Brady
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299326403
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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A tumultuous 1971 merger that combined all of the state’s public colleges and universities into a single entity led to the creation of the University of Wisconsin System. Drawing on decades of previously unpublished sources, Patricia A. Brady details the System’s full history from its origin to the present, illuminating complex networks among and within the campuses and an evolving relationship with the state. The UW System serves as a powerful case study for how broad, national trends in higher education take shape on the ground. Brady illustrates the ways culture wars have played out on campuses and the pressures that have mounted as universities have shifted to a student-as-consumer approach. This is the essential, unvarnished story of the unique collection of institutions that serve Wisconsin and the world—and a convincing argument for why recognizing and reinvesting in the System is critically important for the economic and civic future of the state and its citizens.

Author: Wisconsin. State Board of Public Affairs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1006

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Author: David J Pascoe
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Charles McCarthy, the founder of the Wisconsin Legislative Library, was instrumental in helping create the legislation that embodied the progressive movement of Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. This book tells that story--both of the aims and the execution. It was first published in 1912. This edition includes annotations to identify the actors mentioned in the text.

Author: Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Audit Bureau
Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Audit Bureau
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10

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Author: University of Wisconsin System
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Council
Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Author: James K. Conant
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803264569
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441

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Throughout the twentieth century, Wisconsin won national visibility and praise for its role as a ?laboratory of democracy? within the American federal system. In Wisconsin Politics and Government James K. Conant traces the development of the state and its Progressive heritage from the early territorial experience to contemporary times. Conant includes a discussion of the four major periods of institutional and policy innovation that occurred in Wisconsin during the twentieth century as well as an examination of the state?s constitution, legislature, office of the governor, courts, political parties and elections, interest groups, social welfare policy, local governments, state-local relations, and current and emerging issues. ø Readers of Wisconsin Politics and Government are likely to find a close correspondence between Wisconsin's social, economic, and political experience during the twentieth century and the essential democratic characteristics Alexis de Tocqueville describes in his classic work Democracy in America. For example, Wisconsin?s twentieth-century civil society was highly developed: its elected and administrative officials continuously sought to improve the state's political and administrative institutions, and they worked to enhance the economic and social conditions of the state's citizens. Other modern characteristics of the state's democratic experience include issue-oriented politics, government institutions operating free of scandal, and citizens turning out to vote in large numbers.

Author: University of Wisconsin System. Board of Regents
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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