Legislative textology as an integral part legislative technique

Legislative liaison as critical intervention.

Legislative Update.

length: 105 days. If necessary, the Governor can call for a 30-day special session. Legislators can call themselves into special session with a two-thirds vote. Next Cutoff: April 3, Last day to read in committee reports from opposite house exept House fiscal committees and Senate Ways & Means and Transportation committees. Information: • For up-to-date legislative information, visit: www.leg.w...

Legislative Requirements

It has been three years since states began to implement the accountability and program improvement provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990 (Perkins II), and policymakers are asking whether these provisions are working. We know, from previous National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) research, that states adopted systems of mea...

Tools for automated legislative

We describe a method for automated codiication of regulations that is being developed at the University of Amsterdam. The method is based on the distinction between normative knowledge and world knowledge (cf. (Breuker & den Haan 1991)). The world knowledge is used to generate all possible situations, which are in turn divided over a subset of legal situations and illegal situations. This bipar...

Sequential legislative lobbying

In this paper, we analyze the equilibrium of a sequential game-theoretical model of lobbying, due to Groseclose and Snyder (1996), describing a legislature that vote over two alternatives, where two opposing lobbies, Lobby 0 and Lobby 1, compete by bidding for legislators’ votes. In this model, the lobbyist moving first suffers from a second mover advantage and will make an offer to a panel of ...