Party Influence in congress challenges current arguments and evidence abaout the influence of political parties in the U.S. congress. Steven S. Smith argues that theory must account for both the policy and electoral goals of congressional parties.
This book is focuses on political developments in region following september 11. In this arising from a conference of the council of asian liberals and democrats on globalisation, thinkers and observers of the region review the impact of september 11 on the development of democracy and freedom in Asia.
This handbook brings together 26 ethnographic research reports from around the world about communication. The studies explore 13 languages from 17 countries across 6 continents. Together, the studies examine, through cultural analyses, communication practices in cross-cultural perspective. In doing so, and as a global community of scholars, the studies explore the diversity in ways communicatio…
Overthinking adalah masalah serius yang sering dihadapi oleh manusia di era sekarang ini. Overthinking merujuk pada pemikiran-pemikiran impulsif yang terus menghantui seseorang berwujud teror tentang kemungkinan-kemungkinan buruk yang belum tentu terjadi. Apabila overthinking ini dilakukan terus menerus, maka bukan tidak mungkin seseorang akan merasa kewalahan dan terjebak dalam kegelapan pikir…
Persamaan di depan hukum adalah salah satu asas atau prinsip normatif yang sangat fundamental. Artinya hukum tidak membeda-bedakan siapapun yang datang meminta keadilan kepadanya. Itulah cita-cita hukum, itulah hukum seharusnya yang coba ditegakkan kapan pun dan di mana pun.
This Handbook serves as a guide to concepts and methods applied in the analysis of policy. Policy analysis is asocial and political activity. True, Analysts take moral and intellectual responsibility for the quality of their policy-analytic work.
The ""postreform"" House of Representatives of the 1980's is strikingly different from the House of the 1970s. A most important change is the increasingly creative use of special rules, which structure floor debate on major legislation. The new trade of special rule craftsmanship now plays a pivotal role in managing the uncertainties of decisionmaking in the House. During the 1970s new issues a…