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Initiatives without Engagement

A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects

By: Joshua J. Dyck,Edward L. Lascher

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Initiatives without Engagement

A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects

By: Joshua J. Dyck,Edward L. Lascher

Arguments about the American ballot initiative process date back to the Progressive Era, when processes allowing citizens to decide policy questions directly were established in about half of the states. When political scientists began to systematically examine whether the state ballot initiative process had spillover consequences, they found the initiative process had a positive impact on civic engagement. Recent scholarship casts doubt on these conclusions, determining the ballot initiative process did not make people believe they could influence the political process, trust the government, or be more knowledgeable about politics in general. However, in some circumstances, it got them to show up at the polls, and increased interest groups’ participation in the political arena. In Initiatives without Engagement, Dyck and Lascher develop and test a theory that can explain the evidence that the ballot initiative process fails to provide the civic benefits commonly claimed for it, and the evidence that it increases political participation. This theory argues that the basic function of direct democracy is to create more conflict in society.

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University of Michigan Press

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047212465X

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The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform

Ideas, Institutions, and Public Policy in North America

By: Edward L. Lascher Jr.

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The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform

Ideas, Institutions, and Public Policy in North America

By: Edward L. Lascher Jr.

American state and Canadian provincial governments have dealt with rapidly rising auto insurance rates in different ways over the last two decades, a difference many attribute to variances in political pressure exerted by interest groups such as trial attorneys and insurance companies. Edward L. Lascher, Jr., argues that we must consider two additional factors: the importance of politicians’ beliefs about the potential success of various solutions and the role of governmental institutions. Using case studies from both sides of the border, Lascher shows how different explanations of the problem and different political structures affect insurance reform. In his conclusion, Lascher moves beyond auto insurance to draw implications for regulation and policymaking in other areas.

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Georgetown University Press

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1589014561

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The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform

Ideas, Institutions, and Public Policy in North America

By: Edward L. Lascher Jr.

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Ideas, Institutions, and Public Policy in North America

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Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind

Medieval Constructions of a Disability

By: Edward Wheatley

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Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind

Medieval Constructions of a Disability

By: Edward Wheatley

Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offers a cultural geography of medieval blindness that invites us to be more discriminating about how we think of geographies of disability today." ---Christopher Baswell, Columbia University "A challenging, interesting, and timely book that is also very well written . . . Wheatley has researched and brought together a leitmotiv that I never would have guessed was so pervasive, so intriguing, so worthy of a book." ---Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind presents the first comprehensive exploration of a disability in the Middle Ages, drawing on the literature, history, art history, and religious discourse of England and France. It relates current theories of disability to the cultural and institutional constructions of blindness in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries, examining the surprising differences in the treatment of blind people and the responses to blindness in these two countries. The book shows that pernicious attitudes about blindness were partially offset by innovations and ameliorations---social; literary; and, to an extent, medical---that began to foster a fuller understanding and acceptance of blindness. A number of practices and institutions in France, both positive and negative---blinding as punishment, the foundation of hospices for the blind, and some medical treatment---resulted in not only attitudes that commodified human sight but also inhumane satire against the blind in French literature, both secular and religious. Anglo-Saxon and later medieval England differed markedly in all three of these areas, and the less prominent position of blind people in society resulted in noticeably fewer cruel representations in literature. This book will interest students of literature, history, art history, and religion because it will provide clear contexts for considering any medieval artifact relating to blindness---a literary text, a historical document, a theological treatise, or a work of art. For some readers, the book will serve as an introduction to the field of disability studies, an area of increasing interest both within and outside of the academy. Edward Wheatley is Surtz Professor of Medieval Literature at Loyola University, Chicago.

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Initiatives without Engagement

A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects

By: Joshua J. Dyck,Edward L. Lascher

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A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects

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Initiatives without Engagement

Initiatives without Engagement

The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform

The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform

The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform

The Politics of Automobile Insurance Reform

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Initiatives without Engagement

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