scholarly journals Contact Strengthens Tennessee Health Department's Legislative Influence

1971 ◽  
Vol 86 (11) ◽  
pp. 957
Author(s):  
H. P. Hopkins ◽  
Don Dodson
Keyword(s):  
Legislative Influence

Moving Beyond Procedure

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 784-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMIE KREPPEL
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Decision Procedures ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Legislative Influence

This article examines the influence of the European Parliament (EP) within the legislative process of the European Union. Although debate over the impact of the cooperation and co-decision I procedures continues, this article argues that, in part, the current theoretical debate is a false one that has caused many of the other important variables that affect EP legislative influence to be ignored. This article briefly revisits the current debate, then proceeds to an analysis of the success of more than 1,000 EP amendments under the cooperation and co-decision procedures. This evidence suggests that numerous other variables, such as internal EP unity and type of amendment made, have a significant impact on EP success, even controlling for procedure. In addition, this comparison points out some empirical differences between the two procedures that have been largely ignored in the theoretical debate but that nonetheless have a significant impact of EP success and merit further study.

Guarding the Guardians through Oversight

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
National Security ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Armed Services Committee ◽  
Armed Services ◽  
Legislative Influence ◽  
Abu Ghraib Prison ◽  
Previous Scholarship

This chapter reviews previous scholarship about congressional scrutiny of the executive branch and about general patterns of legislative influence on foreign policy decisions. In the spring of 2004, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee proposed public hearings regarding the conduct and objectives of the Iraq War. A month later, Senator John Warner, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, scheduled two days of hearings to investigate abuse of detainees at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib Prison. The chapter examines the hearing activity of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees from 1947 to 2008 to assess the overall trends in oversight and identify similarities and differences in their behavior. It also considers what scholars know about congressional involvement in U.S. foreign policy, what they have concluded about oversight of national security more generally, and why these perspectives do not appear to fit together.

The Violence Against Women Act and Ambivalent Alliances

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Whittier
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Tea Party Movement ◽  
Feminist Organizations ◽  
Violence Against Women Act ◽  
Carceral Feminism ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Legislative Influence

Chapter 4 examines the Violence Against Women Act and the ambivalent alliance that led to it. The chapter shows the influence of feminist organizations on the legislation and traces how support from conservative elected officials formed alongside opposition from conservative activists outside the state. Conservatives and many liberals in Congress sought to be tough on crime and protect women from domestic violence and rape, while feminists sought to reduce the systematic victimization of women and improve the response from law enforcement and others. Congressional testimony promulgated a frame about violence against women as a gendered crime that could be understood in different ways by different sides. The chapter shows how this frame promoted VAWA’s success but feminist advocates’ intersectional goals for immigrants, women of color, and LGBT people were marginalized. The chapter shows how, by 2011, conservative activists’ influence on Congress through the Tea Party movement and feminists’ ongoing push to strengthen VAWA’s intersectional dimensions destabilized agreement on VAWA. The chapter addresses feminist criticism of VAWA as a case of carceral feminism, showing how VAWA’s discourse and legislation promoted both carceral, non-carceral, and intersectional frames and outcomes. VAWA reflects both unprecedented feminist legislative influence countervailing conservative influence.

Ideologies and Incarceration: Legislator Attitudes Toward Jail Overcrowding

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
WAYNE N. WELSH
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Criminal Justice Policy ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Intermediate Sanctions ◽  
Legislative Influence

Despite increasing legislative influence on criminal justice policy, research on the determinants and effects of lawmakers' attitudes toward specific criminal justice problems has been sparse. Combining interview and survey methods, this study examined punishment ideologies of California legislators and investigated linkages with attitudes about incarceration and jail overcrowding (perceived causes, effects, and solutions). Results suggested that legislators held beliefs supporting a mix of punishment ideologies, and ideology was only weakly related to support for specific punishment policies. Mixed ideologies and the lack of a clear distinction between liberal and conservative responses imply greater potential for bipartisan solutions to jail overcrowding and other criminal justice problems than has commonly been assumed. Support for initiatives such as juvenile prevention and intermediate sanctions was widespread and cut across party lines.

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