Statement by Jesse Jannetta Research Associate, The Urban Institute: At a hearing on The Local Role of the United States Parole Commission (USPC): Increasing Public Safety, Reducing Recidivism, and Using Alternatives to Re-incarceration in the District of Columbia By the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Jannetta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
District Of Columbia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Reducing Recidivism ◽  
Federal Workforce

scholarly journals The legend of Saint Alan: Larnaudie and Stiegler in the Oversight Committee Room

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-184
Author(s):  
Calum Watt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Federal Reserve ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
The Us ◽  
Oversight Committee ◽  
Bernard Stiegler

Ten years on from the 2008 global financial crisis, this article sets in dialogue two French treatments – by the novelist Mathieu Larnaudie and the philosopher Bernard Stiegler – of footage of the 2008 testimony of Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The article introduces and compares the concepts of ‘effondrement’ and ‘prolétarisation’ developed by the two writers in relation to the Greenspan hearing, and analyses how both understand the question of ideology as it emerges in the hearing. Informed by interviews conducted by the author with Larnaudie and Stiegler, the piece concludes by discussing the notion common to both writers that Greenspan is a ‘saint’ of the crisis.

scholarly journals John Caldwell Calhoun and his political role in United States of America (1782-1850).

2018 ◽  
Vol 217 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Haydar Shaker Khames ( Ph.D)
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Foreign Minister ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legislative Council ◽  
Political Role

      This research deals with the political role of one of the pioneers of American policy in the nineteenth century,  John Caldwell Calhoun, and his ideas and philosophy in addressing the central issues in the domestic and foreign policy of the United States of America by virtue of the important sites that filled namely: Member of the Legislative Council of the State of South Carolina between 1807-1811 , a member of the House of Representatives between 1811-1817, Secretary of the Treasury between 1817 - 1825, Vice President between 1825-1832, a member of the Senate between 1833-1850, Foreign Minister between 1844-1845.

scholarly journals The Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security: Implications of Relaxing the Mailbox Monopoly

10.7249/mg800 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Davis ◽  
Michael Pollard ◽  
Jeremiah Goulka ◽  
Katherine Mack ◽  
Russell Lundberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
United States Postal Service ◽  
United States Postal

America in Comparative Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Vickery ◽  
Heather Szilagyi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
Developing Democracies ◽  
Administrative Framework ◽  
The Will

Chapter 10 highlights a confluence of factors in the United States that produce a high percentage of wasted votes and a system of governance that largely fails to reflect the will of the majority of voters, widely considered a cornerstone of democracy. This study judges the fundamental integrity of key elements of the electoral process in the United States by applying the same standards used to evaluate developing democracies around the world. Several acute challenges to the U.S. electoral process are identified: boundary delimitation for the House of Representatives, the role of the Electoral College in presidential contests, processes of voter registration, and the decentralized administrative framework. The chapter concludes that despite obvious vulnerabilities, the United States is resistant to acknowledging these problems, to reform its electoral process in line with international standards, or to learn from the comparative experience of other countries that have strengthened their elections over time.

scholarly journals Ideological Boundaries of Status Advantages: Legislative Effectiveness in the United States House of Representatives

2020 ◽  
pp. 017084062090720
Author(s):  
Francois Collet ◽  
Gianluca Carnabuci ◽  
Gokhan Ertug ◽  
Tengjian Zou
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Status ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Organizational Influence ◽  
The Status ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Legislative Effectiveness

Prior research assumes that high-status actors have greater organizational influence than lower-status ones, that is, it is easier for the former to get their ideas and initiatives adopted by the organization than it is for the latter. Drawing from the literature on ideology, we posit that the status–influence link is contingent on actors’ ideological position. Specifically, status confers organizational influence to the degree that the focal actor is ideologically mainstream. The more an actor’s ideology deviates from the mainstream the less will her status translate into increased organizational influence. We find support for this hypothesis using data on the work of legislators in the House of Representatives in the United States Congress. By illuminating how and under what conditions status leads to increased influence, this study qualifies and extends current understandings of the role of status in organizations.

The Minority Party and Policy-Making in the House of Representatives

1968 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 481-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles O. Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Minority Party ◽  
Distinctive Group ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sizeable Number

Considerable attention has recently been focused on political oppositions in democracies. A recent book examines oppositions in various western countries and a journal called Government and Opposition was founded in 1965. The significance of the role of an opposition in democracies does not have to be stressed. It is generally accepted.What of the role of the opposition in the United States? Robert A. Dahl notes that one must use the plural when speaking of opposition in this country since, “a distinctive, persistent, unified structural opposition scarcely exists in the United States … it is nearly always impossible to refer precisely to “the” opposition, for the coalition that opposes the government on one matter may fall apart, or even govern, on another.”While it is true that “the” opposition is not institutionalized as a definite cohesive, persistent, distinctive group in American politics, it is also true that there has usually been an identifiable minority party in Congress. Though it does not always oppose the majority, and cannot be expected to be synonymous with “the” opposition very often, it does persist. Despite handsome invitations to disband—in the form of successive defeats at the polls—a sizeable number of congressmen, senators, and congressional candidates continue to call themselves Republicans and to organize as such in Congress.

The Role of the United States Postal Service in the Age of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pollard ◽  
Lois Davis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
United States Postal Service ◽  
United States Postal
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