Conference Committees in the Nebraska Legislature

1936 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1114-1116
Author(s):  
Franklin L. Burdette
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Conference Committees ◽  
The Will ◽  
Conference Committee

In his campaign for a unicameral legislature in Nebraska, Senator George W. Norris cited the necessity of conference committees as one of the chief evils in the bicameral system. To Senator Norris, the conference committee is often a “third house” of the legislature, where a small group of men, working in secret and enjoying great parliamentary advantages, so modify bills in dispute between the two chambers that the will of the majority is defeated.

"Conference Committees" in het Congres van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika

Res Publica ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-618
Author(s):  
Guy Tillekaerts
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Federal States ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conference Committees ◽  
Conference Committee ◽  
Verenigde Staten ◽  
Verenigde Staten Van Amerika ◽  
The Way

The conference committee is one of the most important joint committees in het American Congress, appointed to reconcile differences between bills adopted in the two houses of Congress in different forms.Each house is authorized to call for a conference. Usually, only the most important bills are submitted to a conference committee, and minor bills wilt be adopted by concessions of one of the houses.Each house commits his conferees, and can give them instructions on how to vote. These instructions however are not imperative. The number of conferees in each delegation is not necessarily equal, but each delegation votes as a unit and in the way determined by the majority in the delegation. The committee only is allowed to examine the matters in disagreement and cannot add any new provisions to the bills.When an agreement is reached a conference report is written and signed by the majority of the conferees in each delegation, after which it is sent back to the houses for approval.The bill as modified by the conference committee can be adopted or rejected, in which case a second conference can be asked for. No amendments are allowed.  The conference committee, sometimes called the «Third House of Congress» not only has become a very powerful institution but also a necessary one. It is responsible for about one third of the legislation including the most important bills.lts necessity is confirmed by its two century-existence, and the fact that it has been copied in other federal states such as the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland.

scholarly journals House Committee Cohesiveness as a Factor in Winning Conference Committee Outcomes

1986 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 93-101
Author(s):  
Robert E. Dewhirst
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conference Committees ◽  
House Committee ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conference Committee

Frequently referred to as the "third house of Congress" by public officials and political scientists, conference committees have been the subject of numerous articles and books dating back to at least 1927, when an essentially descriptive study (McCown, 1927) outlined their origins and development. The impetus for the attention stems from the critical juncture conference committees occupy in the legislative process. Through sometimes lengthy and complex maneuvers, conference committees deliberations can and frequently do significantly alter legislation produced in one or both houses. Much of the attention of scholars and journalists has been directed toward attempting to determine why one house "wins" the conference deliberations (meaning which house came the closest to having its version of a bill reported out by the committee).

Determinants of Bicameral Conflict: The Formation of Conference Committees in Chile, 1990-2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 74-95
Author(s):  
Patricio Navia ◽  
Nicolás Mimica
Keyword(s):  
Legislative Process ◽  
Conference Committees ◽  
Conference Committee

ABSTRACTIn some countries, bicameral discrepancies are solved by the formation of a conference committee. In Chile, conference committees are exclusively and automatically formed when the second chamber rejects a bill passed in the first chamber or when the first chamber rejects the modifications to its original bill made by the second chamber. This article postulates 4 hypotheses for the determinants of conference committee formation. It tests them for the case of Chile’s sequential legislative process (1990–2018) using 2,183 bills that reached the stage where a conference committee could be formed. The 482 conference committees that resulted were more likely to be formed when chambers were controlled by different majorities, when passage required special voting thresholds, when bills were more important for the president, and when the bills had more approved amendments, but they were not more likely if the bill was introduced by legislators rather than the executive.

Considering Islam from the West

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALÉRIE AMIRAUX
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Third World ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Security Control ◽  
The Will

Richard W. Bulliet, The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 192 pp., $24.50 (hb), ISBN 0231127960.Henry Laurens, Orientales II. La IIIe République et l'Islam (Paris: CNRS éditions, 2004), 376 pp., €29.00, ISBN 2271062071.William E. Watson, Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World (London: Praeger, 2003), 295 pp., £31.99 (hb), ISBN 0275974707.But there is a difference between knowledge of other peoples and other times that is the result of understanding, compassion, careful study and analysis for their own sakes, and knowledge that is part of an overall campaign of self affirmation. There is, after all, a profound difference between the will to understand for purposes of co-existence and enlargement of horizons, and the will to dominate for the purposes of control. It is surely one of the intellectual catastrophes of history that an imperialist war confected by a small group of unelected US officials was waged against a devastated Third World dictatorship on thoroughly ideological grounds having to do with world dominance, security control, and scarce resources, but disguised for its true intent, hastened, and reasoned for by Orientalists who betrayed their calling as scholars.

scholarly journals Miłość – świadectwo osobowej dojrzałości. Perspektywa filozoficzno-pedagogiczna

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Maria M. Boużyk
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Perfect Form ◽  
The Will ◽  
Vector Part

Love: An Indicator of Personal Maturity. A Philosophical and Pedagogical Perspective The article is a philosophical analysis of the problem of love from the perspective of human maturity. It aims to recall the philosophical theses (including those by Aristotle, Pieper, Plato, and Wojtyla) that are pedagogically oriented. The article consists of six parts, arranged in six questions, which allow us to define love as a pedagogically desirable attitude. The ontic factors of love are primarily considered, but so too is the contemporary cultural situation that constitutes a context of human relationships. The determinants of this context are individualism, consumerism, metaphysical indifference, and more recently also pandemic-induced isolationism. In Part 1, love is defined as the „being together” of people governed by a personalistic norm. In Part 2, the emphasis is on its corporeal-sensual-spiritual complexity and, in particular, on the aptitude of the will and the intellect. Part 3 considers the principle of love: love is governed by an affirmation, not of a personal feature (or set of features), but of the person’s existence as a person. In Part 4, love is analyzed in terms of its inherent aspect of giving: giving to someone and being given to. Attention is drawn to the need to combine both attitudes in mature love. Part 5 is about friendship, the most perfect form of love. It is noted that although it binds a small group of people (it is exclusive), it also has a socially-oriented vector. Part 6 is devoted to the issue of the deficit of love (indifference, hatred) and its sources in the decline of existential thinking among contemporary people.

Within-Subject Variability in Ingratiation as a Function of Self-Esteem and Time

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 216-226
Author(s):  
Katharina Schmitte ◽  
Bert Schreurs ◽  
Mien Segers ◽  
I. M. “Jim” Jawahar
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Random Coefficient ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Authority Figure ◽  
Subject Variability ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Within Subject Variability

Abstract. Adopting a within-person perspective, we theorize why ingratiation use directed toward an authority figure increases over time and for whom. We posit that as the appraisal event draws closer, the salience of achieving good evaluations increases, leading to an increasing use of ingratiation. We further propose that the increase will be stronger for individuals with low relative to high self-esteem. Participants were 349 students enrolled in a small-group, tutor-led management course. Data were collected in three bi-weekly waves and analyzed using random coefficient modeling. Results show that ingratiation use increased as time to the evaluation decreased, and low self-esteem students ingratiated more as time progressed. We conclude that ingratiation use varies as a function of contextual and inter-individual differences.

Rewards and Challenges of Conducting Applied Small Group Research

1999 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 361-363
Author(s):  
Andrea B. Hollingshead
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Small Group Research
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