Samuel T Patterson

Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World (Parliaments and Legislatures Series)

Nine upper houses are analyzed in this book: the United States Senate, the German Bundesrat, the Australian Senate, the Canadian Senate, the French Sénat, the British House of Lords, the Italian Senato, the Spanish Senado, and the Polish Senat. Although about a third of the world parliaments are bic...

Oklahoma Goes Wet: The Repeal of Prohibition (Cases in Practical Politics Book 24)

In the late 1950's Oklahomans fought a tough, emotionally charged campaign over the repeal of state-prohibition, a policy that was included in the original state constitution when it entered the Union in 1907. The supporters of prohibition, the Drys, saw the battle in Biblical terms -- in their view...

Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s

Congress is a great stage, and its members play their roles under the spotlight of a skeptical public, an acerbic media, and a plethora of interested parties. The 104th Congress, the first in four decades to be Republican controlled, is a watershed in congressional history. Using the theater metapho...

The Changing Politics of Gun Control

In recent years, political discourse about gun control and the Second Amendment has become increasingly volatile and this collection of original essays by top scholars illuminates the various reasons why. Gun lobbies such as the National Rifle Association are more organized and aggressive and their ...

The Legislative Process

More Perfect Union: Introduction to American Government

More Perfect Union: Introduction to American Government

More Perfect Union: Introduction to American Government

Great Theatre : The American Congress in the 1990s

More Perfect Union: Introduction to American Government

Parliaments in the Modern World: Changing Institutions

Parliaments in the Modern World: Changing Institutions