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What makes for a "good" legislature? In Heavy Lifting, Alan Rosenthal traveled to five states, interviewing and shadowing legislators to find out the answer. Through this engaging narrative, the author first establishes the most important aspects of American state legislatures--what they are and how they do their jobs--and then graduates to the book's central thesis: Rosenthal argues that, on the whole, the American legislature must be evaluated on the basis of its processes, not its products. He breaks down the legislative process into three principal functions: representing, lawmaking, and balancing the executive, and covers each in turn in the remainder of the book.

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Quoting from eyewitness accounts, Richard Lawrence Miller allows Lincoln and his contemporaries to tell the story of this monumental American and bring a fascinating era of American history to life. The book covers Lincoln's birth through his first election to the Illinois legislature in 1834. Subsequent volumes will deal with Lincoln's life up to the White House years..
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State legislators have often been in the shadow of their national counterparts, but they drive the processes of democracy

Rosenthal brings together a lifetime of research and experience on state legislative politics into one eminently readable volume-- a dynamic, inside view of the people involved, the politics that prevail, and the interest groups and lobbyists who advocate their causes. Building on earlier work with new data and recent interviews and observations, Rosenthal looks at the way representation works, Americans critical view of their legislatures, the role of legislative leaders, the dynamics of executive-legislative relationships, as well as norms and ethics. Both a complement and contrast to the policymaking process on Capitol Hill, Engines of Democracy proves that no one gives insight into state legislators and their work the way Alan Rosenthal can.

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Making and Breaking Governments offers a theoretical argument about how parliamentary democracy works. The authors formulate a theoretical model of how parties create new governments and either maintain them in office or, after a resignation or no-confidence vote, replace them. The theory involves strategic interaction, derives consequences, formulates empirical hypotheses on the basis of these, and tests the hypotheses with data drawn from the postwar European experience with parliamentary democracy..
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Senator Robert (Bob) McKnight was fortunate to sere in the Florida legislature during what a number of political observers describe as The Golden Years of the 70s and 80s. Students of Florida history will enjoy the insights into actual interactions, some dating back over 25 years, including a chilling recap of a tense Senatorial debate which centered on a matter personal to the McKnight even though it involved a state legislative race, it drew national attention to the outcome. A substantive political issue is addressed in The Golden Years that is the question of whether a combination of single-member districts and term limits may have contributed to the apparent dearth of legislators who were typical of those who served during the Golden Years. Senator McKnight was and is today a Democrat, but you may be surprised to read that his secret mentor was one of the most prominent Republicans of that era. Finally, McKnight includes twenty practical recommendations and suggestions for campaign and public service success for newcomers everywhere..
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This unique historical and genealogical resource draws on the extraordinarily intact legislative, judicial, religious, and personal records of members of the first Maryland legislature. The two-volume set contains profiles of nearly fifteen hundred men who served in the state's legislature in the first 150 years after Maryland's founding.

The major public and private aspects of each legislator's career are quickly discernible: family background, marriage, children, social status, religious affiliation, occupation, other offices held, and military service. Many entries include a brief summary of a legislator's stance on public and private issues. A final category, wealth at death, inventories the legislator's estate and notes any significant changes in wealth between first election and death.

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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection.
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