LSS Newsletter, July 2006, Dissertations

Volume 29, Number 2, July 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, The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005, volumes 65 and 66.

First Name	Last Name	Title of Dissertation
William D.	Anderson	The President's Agenda: Position-Taking, Legislative Support, and the Persistence of Time
Masahiko	Asano	Electoral Reform and Candidate Selection: Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (1960-2003)
Matthew N.	Beckmann	Presidential Lobbying: How the White House Promotes the President's Policies on Capitol Hill
Bernard L.	Bongang	Dimensions of Grandeur: The United States Congress and the Politics of Funding the United Nations
Rebecca-Lynn	Britton	Improving the Odds: Congressional Constraints, Presidential Resources, and Predicting Presidential Foreign Policy Legislative Success
Brian Joseph	Brox	Candidates, Parties, and Campaign Effects in Congressional Elections, 1992-2002
Justin Michael	Buchler	Parties and Leadership PACs
Ann Margaret	Carne	Independent Expenditures, Interest Groups, and Congressional Elections
Corey	Cook	Identity Politics and the U.S. Congress: Race, Gender, and Representation
James Boyce	Cottrill	A Product of the Environment: Environmental Constraint, Candidate Behavior and the Speed of Democracy
Brett W.	Curry	The Courts, Congress, and the Politics of Federal Jurisdiction
Rodolfo	Espino III	Minority Interests, Majority Rules: Representation of Latinos in the U.S. Congress
Craig	Goodman	Ideological Stability in Congress: Experiments in Roll Call Voting
Matthew Nathaniel	Green	Speakers of the House of Representatives and the Exercise of Legislative Leadership
Michael J.	Hanmer	From Selection to Election and Beyond: Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Electoral Reform in America
Adam Howard	Hoffman	The Effects of Campaign Contributions on State Legislators
Mary Lou	Killian	Got Marriage? State-Level Policymaking regarding Marriage Rights for Gays and Lesbians
Sandra L.	Larson	The Influence of Professions on the Development and Outcome of Federal Regulations That Affect Their Work
Bertram J.	Lavine	Unrecorded Legislative Activities: How Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Work 'Behind-the-Scenes' to Accomplish Policy and Career Objectives
Corrine M.	McConnaughy	The Politics of Suffrage Extension in the American States: Party, Race, and the Pursuit of Women's Voting Rights
Joseph Quin	Monson	Polling in Congressional Election Campaigns
Naomi	Murakawa	Electing to Punish: Congress, Race, and the American Criminal Justice State
Leah A.	Murray	Interconnecting Tissue: Presidential-Congressional Policy Conversations
Gregory Glenn	Neddenriep	The Quality of Black Legislative Life: Perceptions of Black and White City Councilors at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Magnus	Ohman	The Heart and Soul of the Party: Candidate Selection in Ghana and Africa
Tracy Lynne	Osborn	Pursuing a Women's Agenda in the State Legislatures
Costas	Panagopoulos	Quality Control: Challenger Quality and Congressional Elections, 1972-2000
Antoinette J.	Pole	E-mocracy: Information Technology and State Legislatures
Hia	Quach	Home Schooling in the United States: The Responsiveness of State Legislatures to Political Demand
M. Shawn	Reichert	Legislating For Europe: The Dynamics of MEP Voting Behavior
Alan Douglas	Rozzi	Party-Embedded Institutions: A Theory and Evidence
Marge	Schiller	CitizensÕ Legislative Seminars: The Development of a Learning Environment in the Massachusetts State Legislature
J. H.	Snider	Low-Visibility Politics: How Local TV Broadcasters Exercise Political Power
Mary Hortmann	Sprague	Power at the Margins: Congressional Committee Influence in the Policymaking Process
Artemesia F.	Stanberry	The Response of the Congressional Black Caucus to the Mandatory Minimum Laws for Crack Cocaine
Amy Lynn	Steigerwalt	Cultivating Controversy: Senators, Interest Groups and the Politics of Courts of Appeals Confirmations
Harry Cornelius	Strine	Stars on Capitol Hill: Explaining Celebrity Appearances in Congressional Committee Hearings
Jas M.	Sullivan	All in the Eyes of the Beholder: Race and Electoral Politics
Jonathan E.	Woon	Legislative Issue Attention
Antoine	Yoshinaka	The Politics of Party Switching by U.S. Legislators in the Postwar Era
Mary	Young	A Content Analysis of Design Characteristics of State Lobby Disclosure Laws