Scholars of the U.S. House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional organization serves ...members' non-partisan goals. On the other hand, partisan theories argue that the House is organized to serve the collective interests of the majority party. This book advances our partisan theory and presents a series of empirical tests of that theory's predictions (pitted against others). It considers why procedural cartels form, arguing that agenda power is naturally subject to cartelization in busy legislatures. It argues that the majority party has cartelized agenda power in the U.S. House since the adoption of Reed's rules in 1890. The evidence demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislative process in order to prevent bills that the party dislikes from reaching the floor.
Royal fever Otnes, Cele C; Maclaran, Pauline
2015., 20151019, 2015, 2015-10-19
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No monarchy has proved more captivating than that of the British Royal Family. Across the globe, an estimated 2.4 billion people watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on ...television. In contemporary global consumer culture, why is the British monarchy still so compelling? Rooted in fieldwork conducted from 2005 to 2014, this book explores how and why consumers around the world leverage a wide range of products, services, and experiences to satisfy their fascination with the British Royal Family brand. It demonstrates the monarchy's power as a brand whose narrative has existed for more than a thousand years, one that shapes consumer behavior and that retains its economic and cultural significance in the twenty-first century.The authors explore the myriad ways consumer culture and the Royal Family intersect across collectors, commemorative objects, fashion, historic sites, media products, Royal brands, and tourist experiences.Taking a case study approach, the book examines both producer and consumer perspectives. Specific chapters illustrate how those responsible for orchestrating experiences related to the British monarchy engage the public by creating compelling consumer experiences. Others reveal how and why people devote their time, effort, and money to Royal consumption-from a woman who boasts a collection of over 10,000 pieces of British Royal Family trinkets to a retired American stockbroker who spends three months each year in England hunting for rare and expensive memorabilia.Royal Feverhighlights the important role the Royal Family continues to play in many people's lives and its ongoing contribution as a pillar of iconic British culture.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of ...the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward.Fighting for the Speakershipprovides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today.
Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day.Fighting for the Speakershipreveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.
In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia--in the period between the Glorious Revolution ...and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution.Originally published in 1963.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most
successful experiment in mass housing While the work of
Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries
frequently influences our ...ideas about house design at the
midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built
by little-known builders who also served as developers of the
communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of
ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs
represent the twentieth century's most successful experiment in
mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first
comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic
architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than
thirteen million houses-most of them in new ranch and split-level
styles-were constructed on large expanses of land outside city
centers, providing homes for the country's rapidly expanding
population. Focusing on twelve developments in the suburbs of
Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Barbara Miller Lane
tells the story of the collaborations between builders and buyers,
showing how both wanted houses and communities that espoused a
modern way of life-informal, democratic, multiethnic, and devoted
to improving the lives of their children. The resulting houses
differed dramatically from both the European International Style
and older forms of American domestic architecture. Based on a
decade of original research, and accompanied by hundreds of
historical images, plans, and maps, this book presents an entirely
new interpretation of the American suburb. The result is a
fascinating history of houses and developments that continue to
shape how tens of millions of Americans live. Featured housing
developments in Houses for a New World: Boston area:
Governor Francis Farms (Warwick, RI)
Wethersfield (Natick, MA)
Brookfield (Brockton, MA)
Chicago area:
Greenview Estates (Arlington Heights, IL)
Elk Grove Village
Rolling Meadows
Weathersfield at Schaumburg
Los Angeles and Orange County area:
Cinderella Homes (Anaheim, CA)
Panorama City (Los Angeles)
Rossmoor (Los Alamitos, CA)
Philadelphia area:
Lawrence Park (Broomall, PA)
Rose Tree Woods (Broomall, PA)
This book addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. By analyzing the motivation of the founders, and subsequent keepers, of house museums, the author identifies a ...typology that casts light on what they were intended to represent and their significance (or lack of it) today
What a Thing to Say to the Queen! is a collection of anecdotes celebrating the lighter side of the royal family, specially updated to mark the passing of the much-loved monarch.
Using Australian capital city data from 1984Q3--2008Q2, this paper utilizes a dynamic present value model within a VAR framework to construct time series of house prices depicting what aggregate ...house prices should be given expectations of future real disposable income – the “fundamental price” – and continues by comparing capital city fundamental prices with actual prices. The extent to which revealed capital city “non-fundamental” components spillover from state to state, as well as their long-term impact is also investigated. Results provide evidence of periods of sustained deviations of house prices from values warranted by income for all state capitals with the greatest deviations arising in the NSW market and starting around 2000. In general NSW is relatively more susceptible to spillovers transmitted from other states while ACT and WA are most isolated from the rest of the country.
8 February 2015 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Erskine May. May is the most famous of the fifty holders of the office of Clerk of the House of Commons. His continued renown ...arises from his Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament, first published in 1844 and with its 25th edition currently in preparation. It is known throughout those parts of the world that model their constitutional arrangements on Westminster as the ‘Bible of Parliamentary Procedure’. This volume celebrates both the man and his book. Bringing together current and former Clerks in the House of Commons and outside experts, the contributors analyse May’s profound contribution to the shaping of the modern House of Commons, as it made the transition from the pre-Reform Act House to the modern core of the UK’s constitutional democracy in his lifetime. This is perhaps best symbolised by its enforced transition between 1834 and 1851 from a mediaeval slum to the World Heritage Palace of Westminster, which is the most iconic building in the UK. The book also considers the wider context of parliamentary law and procedure, both before and after May’s time. It constitutes the first sustained analysis of the development of parliamentary procedure in over half a century, attempting to situate the reforms in the way the central institution of our democracy conducts itself in the political contexts which drove those changes. Volume 7 in the series Hart Studies in Constitutional Law
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