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Every week the General Assembly is in session the South Carolina House of Representatives, Office of Research publishes the Legislative Update, a digest of action on the floor of the House and action in full House committees.
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Every week the General Assembly is in session the South Carolina House of Representatives, Office of Research publishes the Legislative Update, a digest of action on the floor of the House and action in full House committees.
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Every week the General Assembly is in session the South Carolina House of Representatives, Office of Research publishes the Legislative Update, a digest of action on the floor of the House and action in full House committees.
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Every week the General Assembly is in session the South Carolina House of Representatives, Office of Research publishes the Legislative Update, a digest of action on the floor of the House and action in full House committees.
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In: Political behavior
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Political behavior
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Political behavior, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 1735-1758
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Political behavior, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 491-510
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Political behavior, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 1079-1103
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Studies in American political development: SAPD, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 148-169
ISSN: 1469-8692
The ratification of constitutional changes via referendum is an important mechanism for constraining the influence of elites, particularly when representative institutions are captured. While this electoral device is commonly employed cross-nationally, its use is far from universal. We investigate the uneven adoption of mandatory referendums by examining the divergence between Northern and Southern U.S. states in the post-independence period. We first explore why states in both regions adopted constitutional conventions as the primary mechanism for making revisions to fundamental law, but why only Northern states adopted the additional requirement of ratifying via referendum. We argue that due to distortions in state-level representation, Southern elites adopted the discretionary referendum as a mechanism to bypass the statewide electorate when issues divided voters along slave-dependency lines. We demonstrate the link between biases to apportionment and opposition to mandatory referendums using a novel data set of roll calls from various Southern state conventions, including during the secession crisis of 1861.
In: Political behavior, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 637-661
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Political geography, Band 44, S. 40-49
ISSN: 0962-6298
World Affairs Online
In: Review of African political economy, Band 36, Heft 120, S. 193-207
ISSN: 0305-6244
World Affairs Online
In: Interpretation: a journal of political philosophy, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 217-222
ISSN: 0020-9635
In: Studies in American political development: SAPD, Band 16, Heft 2
ISSN: 1469-8692
In: Political behavior, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 79-93
ISSN: 1573-6687