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We exploit a large new dataset in order to revisit the determinants of "legislative success" in Congress. Previous studies have focused on one or (rarely) two Congresses. Ours is the first study based on panel data, allowing us to better measure such causal effects as how a member's productivity increases when they become a committee chair or their party attains a majority. While corroborating several previous findings, we also differ on several important points—e.g., whereas the most sophisticated previous study finds greater seniority and committee leadership posts boosting productivity in neither party, we find them boosting productivity in both.

EXPLORES CONTRASTING APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF OVERSIGHT BY STATE LEGISLATURES. A FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL ORIENTATIONS AND BEHAVIOR, REVEALS ATTEMPTS BY LEGISLATORS TO MAXIMIZE CREDIT, ACHIEVE CONCRETE RESULTS, AND AVOID TROUBLE FOR THEMSELVES. IT INDICATES THAT LITTLE OVERSIGHT IS PERFORMED.

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Though Algeria was known for its political & economic instability, along with violence & terrorist, in the 1990s, the situation in 2007 is one of institutional & political rebuilding, including economic reforms that have led to foreign investment. In the legislative elections of 17 May 2007, voters had to select among some 12,000 candidates representing 24 political parties. The three leading parties constituted a conservative coalition, with the FLN the most powerful. Despite some confusion, the elections did not really change the political chessboard, & Algeria remains engaged in a process of democratization. S. Stanton

AN ANALYSIS OF COMPETITION IN THE LOWER HOUSES OF 20 STATE LEGISLATURES SHOWS THAT IN ALMOST EVERY STATE THERE WAS A DECLINE OVER THE 1950-86 PERIOD IN THE PROPORTIONS OF MARGINAL SEATS AND OF CONTESTED SEATS. A REGRESSION ANALYSIS CONDUCTED IN 14 OF THE STATES SHOWS THAT THERE WAS LESS COMPETITION IN STATES WITH LARGER LEGISLATIVE RESOURCES, IN STATES USING MULTIMEMBER DISTRICTS, AND TO A SMALLER EXTENT IN STATES WHERE A HIGHER PROPORTION OF INCUMBENTS SOUGHT REELECTION. IN 6 OF THE 14 STATES, REAPPORTIONMENT ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE DECLINING PROPORTION OF MARGINAL DISTRICTS, THOUGH IT HAD LESS EFFECT ON THE PROPORTION OF CONTESTED RACES.

Legislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the most distinguished legislative scholars in political science, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description and critical assessment of the state of the art in this key area.

This book aims to explain why some presidents are more successful than others in winning the support of legislators during periods of unified government. This book covers five presidential and semi-presidential systems such as France, Indonesia, Mexico, Taiwan, and the U.S. with a wide variety of institutional arrangements and political dynamics. This book elaborates on explaining how institutional factors such as confidence vote, electoral system, candidate nomination and presidential unilateral power influence the ability of presidents to pass their legislative agendas through comparisons across presidential and semi-presidential systems. Jung-Hsiang Tsai is Professor of Political Science at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.

Understanding legislative organization requires that we understand internal institutional choice; we must be able to describe & predict variation in internal structures across legislatures rather than simply explain a given structure. Currently, models that would enable us to do so are largely unavailable. This article offers a more general model, based on a variant of ambition theory, with the explicit purpose of examining variation in internal organization rather than a particular structure. Theoretical results indicate that legislators' strategic preferences over structures will fall into distinct & opposed types. This finding implies that legislatures themselves should fall into the same types & that structures, rules, & norms should appear in organized, relatively coherent bundles linked to varying legislator types. 1 Table, 4 Figures, 30 References. Adapted from the source document.

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