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  • Encyclopedia of the US Congress

    Encyclopedia of the United States Congress Details Robert E. Dewhirst, Facts On File, Inc., New York, 2007 Content of the Encyclopedia of the United States Congress Army-mccarthy Hearings Congressional Elections: Financing Direct Election of Senators Enacting Clause Equal Rights Amendment Extension of Remarks House Un-american Activities Committee Intelligence Oversight “Lame Duck” Amendment Pay and Perquisites…

  • Structural Bias

    Besides “partisan bias” in media reporting, a second type of media bias is known as “structural bias.” This type of bias stems from certain “structures” (customs, reporting routines, commercial pressures, etc.) that operate within the news industry. As a result of the highly commercial and purportedly nonpartisan nature of the mainstream media, the issue of…

  • Agenda Setting

    Literature Review on Agenda Setting In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] David A. Rochefort offers the following summary about the topic of Agenda Setting: The agenda-setting model seeks to describe and explain the process by which certain political issues […]

  • Antinomy

    Antinomy Antinomy (Gr. ἀντί, against, νόμος, law), literally, the mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Kant, who used it to describe the contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria proper to the universe of sensible perception…

  • State Legal Research

    State Legal Research U.S. State Legal Research The first three topics in this subset highlight key sources in researching the laws of popular states. The last of this set provides general advice about researching the law of any state, including key sources of information for all fifty states (D.C. and U.S. territories are often included…

  • Public Affairs

    Civil Society Organisation (cso) in Election Law In a democracy, all persons have the right to participate in public affairs, including civil society activities and the right to freedom of association and to form and join civil society organisations. Such organisations play an essential role […]

  • Strategic Trade Policy

    Strategic Trade Policy and International Trade Economy In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Strategic Trade Policy: A broad term for approaches joining conventional trade theory with industrial organization theory, in order to […]

  • Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy

    Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy Table of Contents Chronology of American Foreign Policy, 1607-2001 / Richard Dean Burns and Louise B. Ketz — African Americans / Brenda Gayle Plummer — Alliances, Coalitions, and Ententes / Warren F. Kimball — Ambassadors, Executive Agents, and Special Representatives / Kenneth J. Grieb — Anti-Imperialism / Robert Buzzanco —…

  • Judicial Councils

    Judicial Councils From the article “Judicial Appointments and Judicial Independence”, authored by Tom Ginsburg for US Institute for Peace (January 2009): “Judicial councils are bodies that are designed to insulate the functions of appointment, promotion, and discipline of judges from the partisan political process while ensuring some level of accountability. Judicial councils lie somewhere in…

  • Student’s Guide to Congress

    Student’s Guide to Congress Editor: Bruce J. Schulman Since the 1980s, Dr. Bruce J. Schulman has been teaching and writing about the political face of the United States. He is Professor of History at Boston University. He has taken an active role in education. Other contributions from Bruce J. Schulman to the collection: Student’s Guide…

  • Comparative Politics

    Political Science: Fields in Political Science: Comparative PoliticsIntroduction to Comparative PoliticsComparative politics involves study of the politics of different countries. Some political scientists, known as area specialists, study a single country or a culturally similar g…

  • Political Campaign

    Introduction to Political CampaignPolitical Campaign, organized effort by a political party or candidate for public office to attract the support of voters in an election. Political campaigns play an important role in the education and mobilization of citizens in most democracies.In…

  • How Voters Decide

    Election: How Voters DecideIntroduction to How Voters DecideMany Americans identify personally with and maintain a sense of loyalty to either the Democratic or Republican Party. Voters often acquire partisan identification in childhood as a result of parental influence. Issues and …

  • International Arbitration, Historical

    International Arbitration International arbitration is a proceeding in which two nations refer their differences to one or more selected persons, who, after affording to each party an opportunity of being heard, pronounce judgment on the matters at issue. It is understood, unless otherwise expressed, that the judgment shall be in accordance with the law by…

  • Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights

    Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights Title: Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights Author: Glenn H. Utter. Publication Date: November 8, 1999 (1st. Edition), 2011 (2nd. edition) ISBN-10: 157356172X ISBN-13: 978-1573561723 Pages: 384 Publisher: Greenwood and Grey House Publishing Copyright: 1999 and 2011 Language: English Preface to the Book Gun control is a…