LSS Newsletter, January 2006, Dissertations

Volume 29, Number 1, January 2006

Dissertations Completed

This section is meant to provide LSS members with the basic citation information about recently completed dissertations dealing with legislatures. The source for this information is Worldwide Political Science Abstracts database, using the query: KW= congress OR parliament OR legislative. The report is arranged in alphabetical order by author name. Full abstracts can be found in Dissertation Abstracts International, A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005, 65, 11.

Author	Title of Dissertation
Bottomley, Samuel A	Parliament, Politics and Policy: Gun Control in Canada, 1867-2003
Cook, Corey	Identity Politics and the U.S. Congress: Race, Gender, and Representation
English, Mary Pepper	Ideologies and Champions: Universal Service from Congress to Your Telephone Bill
Espino, Rodolfo, III	Minority Interests, Majority Rules: Representation of Latinos in the U.S. Congress
Goodman, Craig	Ideological Stability in Congress: Experiments in Roll Call Voting
Green, Matthew Nathaniel	Speakers of the House of Representatives and the Exercise of Legislative Leadership
Krikorian, Jacqueline	Judicial Review beyond the State Borders? The Impact of the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism on Legislative and Policy Arrangements in Canada and the United States
Schiller, Marge	Citizens' Legislative Seminars: The Development of a Learning Environment in the Massachusetts State Legislature