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Partisan Realignment and Its Impact on the Legislative Process
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Partisan Realignment and Its Impact on the Legislative Process,
Some Preliminary Observations
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Nancy Martorano
University of Dayton
Department of Political Science
300 College Park
Dayton, Ohio 45469-1425
Nancy.## email not listed ##
ABSTRACT: The role of partisan politics in the legislative process has been hotly contested in recent research in political science. The recent changes in the partisan composition of the state legislatures of the southern United States provides the single best arena for possibly ending this debate concerning the impact of political parties on the adoption and amendment of formal rules of procedures in the legislative setting. If partisan politics is going to make a difference, it is going to make a difference in a setting in which one party that was completely oppressed and powerless for a number of years (in the case of the South over 100 years), comes to power in a relatively short period of time (in the Southern Republican’s case about 15 years). This paper will assess the impact of partisan change in eight southern legislative chambers by taking a close look at the adoption and alteration of formal legislative procedures between 1986/87 and 2000/01. Paper presented for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003.
This research has been supported in part by a University of Dayton Research Council Summer Seed Grant, a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement grant (SES-0079928) and two additional National Science Foundation grants (SES-8411353 and SBR-9511518 – Keith Hamm and Ronald Hedlund, co-investigators) as well as the Center for the Study of Institutions and Values at Rice University. The author would also like to thank Keith Hamm and Ronald Hedlund for use of data collected through their Committee Specialization Project.
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Partisan Realignment and Its Impact on the Legislative Process,
Some Preliminary Observations
By
Nancy Martorano
University of Dayton
Department of Political Science
300 College Park
Dayton, Ohio 45469-1425
Nancy.## email not listed ##
ABSTRACT: The role of partisan politics in the legislative process has been hotly
contested in recent research in political science. The recent changes in the partisan
composition of the state legislatures of the southern United States provides the single best
arena for possibly ending this debate concerning the impact of political parties on the
adoption and amendment of formal rules of procedures in the legislative setting. If partisan
politics is going to make a difference, it is going to make a difference in a setting in which
one party that was completely oppressed and powerless for a number of years (in the case
of the South over 100 years), comes to power in a relatively short period of time (in the
Southern Republican’s case about 15 years). This paper will assess the impact of partisan
change in eight southern legislative chambers by taking a close look at the adoption and
alteration of formal legislative procedures between 1986/87 and 2000/01.
Paper presented for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003.
This research has been supported in part by a University of Dayton Research Council
Summer Seed Grant, a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement grant
(SES-0079928) and two additional National Science Foundation grants (SES-8411353 and
SBR-9511518 – Keith Hamm and Ronald Hedlund, co-investigators) as well as the Center
for the Study of Institutions and Values at Rice University.
The author would also like to thank Keith Hamm and Ronald Hedlund for use of data
collected through their Committee Specialization Project.
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