Plurality Rule vs. Proportional Representation. How Much of a Difference Do Electoral Rules Make? Evidence from Germanydoi:10.2139/ssrn.240117This paper examines the importance of electoral rules for legislators' behavior. It uses a quasi-natural experiment that assigns whether legislators are elected...
On Tuesday, when Adams was asked at abudget hearing before state legislatorsabout children being afraid of going to school, he responded: “I think that we need to let these children know that they can continue their education. Our administration has stated this over and over again.” The c...
If you put that question to the average American, the answer would go something like this: Legislators are elected to represent states and districts all over the country. These elected officials have different ideas about what government should do. Any one of them can introduce a bill, then C...
Legislative elections are held at least every 5 years, with state legislators elected using single-member district plurality (SMDP) rules. The head of the state government is the Chief Minister. In 2014, four parties dominated state politics: BJP, Congress, NCP, and Shiv Sena. Initially, ...
Most new law is statutory law; that is, law enacted by legislators. An important question, therefore, is how should this law be interpreted by courts and agencies, especially when the text of a statute is not entirely clear. There is a great deal of scholarly literature on the rules and...
Disentangling Constituency and Legislator Effects in Legislative Representation: Black Legislators or Black Districts?* Source: Social Science Quarterly Twitter use in election campaigns: A systematic literature review Source: Journal of Information Technology & Politics ...
In addition to federal impeachment, state legislatures are also granted the power to impeach elected officials in 49 of the 50 states, withOregonbeing the lone exception. At the state level, the process of impeachment is essentially the same as at the national level: typically, the lower state...
Under normal circumstances, elected legislators normally must control all government services and state operations, either directly or indirectly (that is, via ministers), normally through full public and Parliamentary accountability At the same time, the state must also maintain a national security, ...
and even security matters. Since the court’s ruling in 1995 in the Mizrahi case, the court started to act as the “super-legislator of Israel.” This illustrates a fundamental problem: An unelected body, no matter how well-intentioned, should not hold the ultimate power to dictate the cou...
Issa Rae has called off a show at the Kennedy Center in protest of Trump’s firing of much of the center’s leadership and being elected chair of its board. The sold-out show was scheduled for March 16. “Thank you so much for selling out the Kennedy Center for An Evening with Issa...