Which Public Goods are Endangered?: How Evolving Communication Technologies Affect The Logic of Collective Action
- A. Lupia, Gisela Sin
- Business
- 1 December 2003
The theory in Mancur Olson's The Logicof Collective Action is built fromhistorically uncontroversial assumptionsabout interpersonal communication. Today,evolving technologies are…
Were Bush Tax Cut Supporters “Simply Ignorant?” A Second Look at Conservatives and Liberals in “Homer Gets a Tax Cut”
- A. Lupia, A. Levine, Jesse O. Menning, Gisela Sin
- Political SciencePerspectives on Politics
- 28 November 2007
In a recent issue of Perspectives on Politics, Larry Bartels examines the high levels of support for tax cuts signed into law by President Bush in 2001. In so doing, he characterizes the opinions of…
The study of legislative committees*
- Brian J. Gaines, M. Goodwin, Stephen R. Bates, Gisela Sin
- Political ScienceJournal of Legislative Studies
- 3 July 2019
ABSTRACT Proving that legislative committees really matter is not simple. The assembled papers aim to demonstrate fruitful paths to analysing when committees influence policy, what they can and…
Preference vote and intra-party competition in open list PR systems
- J. Cheibub, Gisela Sin
- Political Science
- 1 January 2020
Open list proportional representation (PR) systems require that candidates seek personal votes in order to be successful. This feature of the system is considered to lead to intense competition among…
Crisis and the Emergence of Economic Regulation: The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938
- D. Carpenter, Gisela Sin
- Political Science
- 2002
Scholars commonly remark that new safety or environmental regulations follow a “crisis” or “tragedy” (for example, thalidomide, Bhopal, Three Mile Island). Yet these arguments are often vague and…
Policy Tragedy and the Emergence of Regulation: The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938
- D. Carpenter, Gisela Sin
- Political ScienceStudies in American political development
- 1 September 2007
It is now a commonplace assertion among scholars of regulation to say that new regulatory statutes follow “crises,” “tragedies,” or “scandals.” The content and form of these critical events varies…
Veto Bargaining and the Legislative Process in Multiparty Presidential Systems
- Valeria Palanza, Gisela Sin
- Political Science
- 1 April 2014
This article analyzes the use of vetoes in multiparty presidential systems. It suggests that the nature of executive-legislative bargaining is fundamentally altered when multiple parties compose the…
A bouncy house? UK select committee newsworthiness, 2005–18
- Brian J. Gaines, M. Goodwin, Stephen R. Bates, Gisela Sin
- Political ScienceJournal of Legislative Studies
- 3 July 2019
ABSTRACT Traditionally, legislative committees have been regarded as quite unimportant in the UK. Some scholars contend that recent reforms have substantially increased the powers of select…
Conclusion: prospects for analysing committees in comparative perspective
- Brian J. Gaines, M. Goodwin, Stephen R. Bates, Gisela Sin
- SociologyJournal of Legislative Studies
- 3 July 2019
ABSTRACT While theories of committees in the U.S. Congress can continue to play a central role in the still-growing comparative study of committees, they require careful, frequent modification.…
Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules
- Gisela Sin
- Law
- 8 December 2014
1. A constitutional perspective on House organization 2. Constitutional actors and intraparty groups 3. A constitutional theory of House organization 4. Timing of House organizational changes 5. The…
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