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Education Week, Vol. 31, No. 18. (2012), pp. 4-4
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The article discusses a law proposed in the state of Wisconsin regarding the seclusion and restraint of students, commenting on how the bill addresses issues including student supervision by school employees and medical treatment for student behavior. ...
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k@ta, Vol. 6, No. 2. (2004)
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This study explored the characteristics of the rhetorical discourse employed by Javanese legislative vote getters in the 2004 campaign in their efforts to win public support for their candidates. The data of the study were the discourses written by Javanese legislative vote getters of Indonesian political parties. The study reveals that (1) the discourses were marked by the use of Javanese metaphorical form called "parikan", (2) various strategies, such as testimony technique, religious citations, and historical involvement were employed. ...
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(5 February 2012)
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Florida state Rep. Rachel Burgin (R) proposed a resolution with the goal of cutting federal corporate taxes but she accidentally left in a portion written by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group primarily funded by large corporations. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/02/417488/florida-gop-alec-forget/ What else is ALEC up to? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el-FTjfWYwc#t=29m31s Subscribe to The Young Turks: http://bit.ly/eWuu5i Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: http://www.current.com/gettyt The Largest Online New Show ...
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Psychiatric Annals, Vol. 25, No. 7. (1995), pp. 413-418
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Discusses the regulations that were developed by Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) which affects all aspects of nursing home operation, including the mental health care of nursing home residents. The factors that led to federal regulations include concerns for states to shift fiscal responsibility to the federal government for the residential care of mentally ill older adults; inadequate detection, evaluation, and treatment of mental health problems; and widespread inappropriate treatment of nursing home residents, including the misuse of psychotropic drugs and ...
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Reviews governmental guidelines regulating the use of psychotropic drugs in long-term care facilities as established by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1987 and their impact on the use of psychotropic agents in these settings. A major component of these guidelines is to regulate the clinical indications for psychoactive drugs (neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, and sedative hypnotics) in residents of long-term care facilities. Responsibilities of the prescribing physician, facility medical director, and consulting pharmacist and quality assurance procedures in complying with OBRA ...
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ID: 1996-03234-001
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This review (1) explores the development of the Nursing Home Reform Section of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 and its mandates regarding activities in nursing homes, (2) presents research pertaining to benefits of increasing personal control in recreational activities of older individuals who are institutionalized, and (3) proposes specific practical interventions and suggestions for recreational programming which will enhance personal control and facilitate empowerment among residents of nursing homes. These interventions include assessing and monitoring perceptions of control, providing ...
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ID: 1994-07161-001
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Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 9, No. 1. (2011), pp. 227-241
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At its Naples session of September 2009, the Institute of International Law adopted a resolution on immunity and international crimes. The Institute has adopted several other resolutions on the rule of immunity, but this is the first time it has addressed this very important topic. Indeed, there is a need to clarify existing law applicable to the immunity of states and their agents for the alleged commission of international crimes. The Resolution clarifies a central aspect of the issue, namely that ...
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ENR: Engineering News-Record, Vol. 264, No. 8. (8 March 2010), pp. 1-1
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The article reports on the approval of the 8.6 billion U.S. dollars in funds, an increase from the original 5.1 billion dollars, for the construction of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) by the Legislative Council of China. It notes that the XRL will be a part of a national high-speed-rail network that covers over 3,300 kilometers (km). According to the author, one key challenge is expected to be the construction of the 25 meters deep West Kowloon terminus on ...
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Accession Number: 48967205; Tam, Angela; Source Info: 3/8/2010, Vol. 264 Issue 8, p1; Subject Term: RAILROADS -- Design & construction; Subject Term: RAILROADS -- Finance; Subject Term: LEGISLATIVE councils; Subject Term: TRANSPORTATION; Subject Term: CHINA; NAICS/Industry Codes: 921120 Legislative Bodies; Number of Pages: 1p; Document Type: Article; Full Text Word Count: 630
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ENR: Engineering News-Record, Vol. 264, No. 8. (8 March 2010), pp. 1-1
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The article reports on the approval of the 8.6 billion U.S. dollars in funds, an increase from the original 5.1 billion dollars, for the construction of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) by the Legislative Council of China. It notes that the XRL will be a part of a national high-speed-rail network that covers over 3,300 kilometers (km). According to the author, one key challenge is expected to be the construction of the 25 meters deep West Kowloon terminus on ...
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Accession Number: 48967205; Tam, Angela; Source Info: 3/8/2010, Vol. 264 Issue 8, p1; Subject Term: RAILROADS -- Design & construction; Subject Term: RAILROADS -- Finance; Subject Term: LEGISLATIVE councils; Subject Term: TRANSPORTATION; Subject Term: CHINA; NAICS/Industry Codes: 921120 Legislative Bodies; Number of Pages: 1p; Document Type: Article; Full Text Word Count: 630
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IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 4. (July 2002), pp. 120-122
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It seems ages ago (but it was only 1997) that Dolly, the sheep cloned by Ian Wilmot in Scotland, made headlines all over the world. Using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), in which genetic material is introduced into an egg from which the nucleus has been removed, Dolly was a copy of the donating sheep. The ethical discussion had already begun, even before a successful mammalian cloning, but Dolly launched an intense debate and calls for legislative bans on human cloning. ...
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(2007)
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Technical Report on developing a Digital Archives of Kerala Legislative Assembly Records from the year 1888 to 2011. The Assembly records consist of proceedings of Legislative Council of Travancore from 1888, Travancore Sri Mulam Popular Assembly from 1904, Sri Mulam Assembly and the Sri Chitra State Council from 1933, Travancore Legislative Assembly from 1948, Cochin Legislative Council from 1925, Cochin Legislative Assembly from 1948, Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly from 1949 and Kerala Legislative Assembly from 1957. These records are authentic sources for ...
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Private Members Bills (PMBs) should provide an important opportunity for backbench MPs to initiate legislative proposals as well as policy debate, to check the executive, and to respond to issues of public interest and concern. In recent decades, however, the number of PMBs receiving Royal Assent has steeply declined. Executive control of the timetable has strangled many, and procedural vulnerability has thwarted others, including many that enjoyed broad parliamentary support and commanded public interest. Despite many recent reforms in other areas ...
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American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 35, No. 1. (February 1991), pp. 228-278, doi:10.2307/2111445
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Congressional roll call voting has been highly structured for most of U.S. history. The structure is revealed by a dynamic, spatial analysis of the entire roll call voting record from 1789 to 1985. The space is characterized by a predominant major dimension with, at times, a significant, but less important second dimension. In the modern era, spatial positions are very stable. This stability is such that, under certain conditions, short run forecasting of roll call votes is possible. Since the end ...
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Asian Survey, Vol. 46, No. 2. (2006)
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This paper reports a fairly common contradictory view held in Hong Kong society–the support of universal suffrage and preservation of functional constituency at the same time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] ...
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Although police researchers have often assumed that perceptions of police effectiveness enhance police legitimacy, there has been very little empirical support for this assumption. Employing the legitimacy scale developed by Sunshine and Tyler, this study sought to fill this gap in our criminological knowledge using data from a representative public survey in Accra, Ghana (N = 374). The article reports a lack of reliability, in the Ghanaian context, for the overall Sunshine-Tyler scale, and therefore focuses attention on a sub-scale labelled ...
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Format Availability: Electronic, Print; Population Group: Human; Male; Female.; Location: Ghana; Methodology: Empirical Study; Quantitative Study; Update Code: 20090511 (PsycINFO)
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Les Actualités de 01Net (15 May 2009)
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Hastings Center Report, Vol. 38, No. 2. (2008), 10-11
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The article discusses different forms of deregulation of public health in the U.S. Regulatory preemption, either by the Congress or the Supreme Court, and administrative rulemaking by federal agencies act as an anti-regulatory measures by preventing state governments from implementing laws on public health, safety, and the environment. Privatization of health governance also has antiregulatory effects in the sense that it leaves the private sector responsible for carrying out health functions. Privatization of health governance can also occur when the state ...
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k@ta, Vol. 2, No. 1. (2000)
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This study explored the characteristics of the rhetorical discourse employed by Javanese legislative vote getters in the 2004 campaign in their efforts to win public support for their candidates. The data of the study were the discourses written by Javanese legislative vote getters of Indonesian political parties. The study reveals that (1) the discourses were marked by the use of Javanese metaphorical form called "parikan", (2) various strategies, such as testimony technique, religious citations, and historical involvement were employed. ...
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k@ta, Vol. 2, No. 1. (2000)
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This study explored the characteristics of the rhetorical discourse employed by Javanese legislative vote getters in the 2004 campaign in their efforts to win public support for their candidates. The data of the study were the discourses written by Javanese legislative vote getters of Indonesian political parties. The study reveals that (1) the discourses were marked by the use of Javanese metaphorical form called "parikan", (2) various strategies, such as testimony technique, religious citations, and historical involvement were employed. ...
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k@ta, Vol. 2, No. 1. (2000)
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This study explored the characteristics of the rhetorical discourse employed by Javanese legislative vote getters in the 2004 campaign in their efforts to win public support for their candidates. The data of the study were the discourses written by Javanese legislative vote getters of Indonesian political parties. The study reveals that (1) the discourses were marked by the use of Javanese metaphorical form called "parikan", (2) various strategies, such as testimony technique, religious citations, and historical involvement were employed. ...
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k@ta, Vol. 6, No. 2. (December 2004)
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This study explored the characteristics of the rhetorical discourse employed by Javanese legislative vote getters in the 2004 campaign in their efforts to win public support for their candidates. The data of the study were the discourses written by Javanese legislative vote getters of Indonesian political parties. The study reveals that (1) the discourses were marked by the use of Javanese metaphorical form called ?parikan?, (2) various strategies, such as testimony technique, religious citations, and historical involvement were employed. ...
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Hosp Q, Vol. 5, No. 2. (2001), 42-50
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The horrific events of September 11, 2001, have caused all individuals and institutions to step back and evaluate their ability to respond to a crisis of previously unimaginable proportions. A media search and incident review of Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care records confirms that no event in collective memory has had the potential to yield so many hospital patients. This article describes the legislative framework and process by which the ministry either leads or supports an emergency response. Within ...
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The crisis of September 11: the emergency response of Ontario hospitals and other health system partners
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National Journal, Vol. 39, No. 46/47. (20071117)
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The article reports on the conflict between lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate over legislation to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on November 15, 2007. House Democrats brought back their FISA bill, which would require the administration to obtain a blanket warrant from the FISA court to monitor telephone calls or electronic mails of suspected foreign terrorists. The Senate Judiciary Committee was anticipated to approve a bill that allows the administration to conduct warrantless surveillance. ...
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Time, Vol. 164, No. 25. (20041220)
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Presents information on the intelligence-reform bill that Congress passed last week, the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. spy community since World War II. Candidates for the new Director of National Intelligence; Role of the director; Border patrol issues; Question of whether the bill will deter terrorists like the 9/11 hijackers, who obtained drivers' licenses and identity cards in the U.S.; Outlook. ...
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American Political Science Review, Vol. 102, No. 03. (2008), pp. 333-350
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Between 1898 and 1918, voters in 20 American states adopted constitutional amendments granting citizens the power of the initiative. The embrace of direct democracy by voters invites inquiry into why some state legislatures opted to delegate to citizens the power of the initiative, while others did not. Drawing on an original data set, this article uses Event History Analysis hazard models to explain the puzzle of why legislatures might devolve institutional power to citizens. Our longitudinal, macrolevel analysis of socioeconomic and ...
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on 2008-10-04 10:55:26
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Between 1898 and 1918, voters in 20 American states adopted constitutional amendments granting citizens the power of the initiative. The embrace of direct democracy by voters invites inquiry into why some state legislatures opted to delegate to citizens the power of the initiative, while others did not. Drawing on an original data set, this article uses Event History Analysis hazard models to explain the puzzle of why legislatures might devolve institutional power to citizens. Our longitudinal, macrolevel analysis of socioeconomic and ...
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This paper reviews the articles in this volume and places them in the broader discussion about German politics and comparative legislative behaviour. I describe their collective understanding of German law-making and highlight the strong empirical foundation of the research. Some challenges of the research agenda appear after comparing and contrasting the individual articles. Specifically, I start with a simple veto game and then amend and scrutinise this model using theoretical and empirical insights from this volume and the larger literature on ...
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pp. 267-281
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by tim2p
on 2008-01-05 21:18:14
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Australia is unique among parliamentary federations in having strongly bicameral parliaments at regional as well as national levels. The purpose of this article is to analyse the evolution of the State-level second chambers, the Legislative Councils, over the past half-century. The main changes have concerned the electoral systems of the Councils, enhancing the latter's democratic legitimacy and recasting the mechanisms for producing differently composed chambers. Democratisation of the Councils, together with the other changes discussed, has brought about a subtle transformation ...
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Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 1. (2005)
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With tools borrowed from the economic analysis of insurance, principal-agency theory has allowed political scientists new insights into the role of information asymmetry and incentives in political relationships. It has given us a way to think formally about power as the modification of incentives to induce actions in the interests of the principal. Principal-agency theory has evolved significantly as political scientists have sought to make it more applicable to peculiarly political institutions. In congressional oversight of the bureaucracy, increasing emphasis has ...
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The American Political Science Review, Vol. 93, No. 3. (1999), pp. 519-533
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by cornmara
on 2007-01-25 18:01:27
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David Mayhew's Divided We Govern (1991) sparked an industry of scholars who alternately challenge or confirm the work on theoretical and empirical grounds. Still, we lack a definitive account of the proportions and causes of legislative gridlock. I revisit the effects of elections and institutions on policy outcomes to propose an alternative theory of gridlock: The distribution of policy preferences within the parties, between the two chambers, and across Congress more broadly is central to explaining the dynamics of gridlock. To ...
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Dados, Vol. 45, No. 1. (2002), pp. 5-38
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This article discusses the relationship between the Executive and Legislative Branches in Brazil with regard to the issuing of Provisional Measures (PMs) by the former. The article contends that the legal ability of the Brazilian Chief of State to issue decrees with the force of law and taking force immediately (i.e., PMs) does not imply that members of Congress have abdicated from their legislative prerogatives in favor of the Executive Branch, as proposed by some authors analyzing the issue. After presenting ...
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American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 24, No. 3. (1980), pp. 494-510
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This article discusses the correlation between federal spending allocations and committee assignments in the house of representatives. the author asserts that geographic distribution of federal spending mandates committee assignments, and not the reverse, which has long been assumed. he based his study on the 92, 93, and 94 congresses. ...
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Caltech Working Paper, Vol. 999 (1993)
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Journal of Politics, Vol. 62, No. 4. (2000), pp. 1070-1086
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In this article, we ask what the pattern of distributive spending has been during the 104th Congress, in which Republicans have been in the majority, compared to the preceding Congress when Democrats were the majority party. We seek to understand the patterns of change in light of four alternative explanations of distributive spending. The changes in the content & recipients of federal domestic outlays between the 103rd & 104th Congresses are suggestive of a partisan influence. Republican control of Congress does ...
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