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Dividing the Poor: Congressional Representation in Rhetoric and Policy during the New Deal

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Existing scholarship documents the low levels of political power held by the American poor, and concomitant economic elite domination of Congress. Since the poor seldom elect lawmakers that share their descriptive traits, they necessarily rely on non-poor lawmakers virtually representing their interests. A key part of this virtual representation is...

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Poverty, Public Policy, Representation, Policymaking, Congress, and American Political Development

Subject:

American history, Public policy, and Political science

Creator:

Diament, Sean Matthew

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

09/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_929189 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16262
An Economic Interest Theory of Congressional Budget Process Reform

Description:

The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (or “GRH”), which unprecedentedly provided for “sequestration”, a doomsday device to enforce fiscal discipline upon Congress and the President, was passed with bipartisan support on December 12, 1985. How did GRH take place, and why did it assume its final form? Casting GRH’s enactment in functionalist and...

Keyword:

business interests, interest groups, and congressional budget process

Subject:

Public policy and Political science

Creator:

Shan, Wangqing

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14586 and etdadmin_upload_659990

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