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Illinois 2021 Rules of the Road
Author | : State of State of Illinois |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2021-07-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Illinois 2021 Rules of the Road handbook, drive safe!
Illinois Municipal Problems
Author | : Illinois. Cities and Villages Municipal Problems Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
ISBN | : |
Basic Illinois Government
Author | : David Kenney |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780809318223 |
This latest revision of a classic text presents a comprehensive view of government in Illinois. David Kenney and Barbara L. Brown begin by describing the role of states in the federal system and the basic nature of Illinois as a governmental entity. Next they offer a thorough description of the policy-making process in government. They discuss the three political regions of Illinois--Chicago, Cook County and the collar counties, and downstate--and they outline recent trends in Illinois voter turnout, ticket splitting, party organization, the election schedule, voter qualifications, and the regulation of campaign finance. The problems created by the decennial redrawing of district lines, including the redistricting of 1991, are covered in Kenney and Brown's treatment of the legislative branch of the government. Special emphasis is given to the question of who goes to the General Assembly and who its leaders are, along with a full description of the legislative procedure. Turning to the executive branch, Kenney and Brown first focus on the office of governor. Considerable attention is given to the multiple terms of James R. Thompson, Illinois' longest serving governor, and the election in 1991 of James Edgar. The authors conclude the chapter with a description of the administrative structure of the executive branch. The Illinois court system and the jurisdictions of its three levels are presented as Kenney and Brown turn to the judicial branch of government. They provide biographical information on each of the current justices of the Illinois Supreme Court with particular emphasis on their partisanship. The judgeship selection process is carefully considered and Operation Greylord, which revealed pervasive corruption in the Cook County courts, is discussed. As is the case in each of the chapters on the branches of government, Kenney and Brown offer detailed descriptions of current public officials. Basic Illinois Government also includes chapters on local government, state and local finance, and policy-making issues in education, corrections, welfare, and transportation. In the local government section Kenney and Brown make clear the powers and functions of counties, townships, special districts, and municipal corporations, giving special attention to Chicago and Cook County. They compare the taxing and spending policies of Illinois to those of the rest of the United States and review in detail the controversial income tax increase of 1983 and 1989 with its extension in 1991.
Issues for the Illinois Constitutional Convention
Author | : Fisher, Glenn W. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : |
Corrupt Illinois
Author | : Thomas J. Gradel |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-02-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0252097033 |
Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace. In Corrupt Illinois, veteran political observers Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson take aim at business-as-usual. Naming names, the authors lead readers through a gallery of rogues and rotten apples to illustrate how generations of chicanery have undermined faith in, and hope for, honest government. From there, they lay out how to implement institutional reforms that provide accountability and eradicate the favoritism, sweetheart deals, and conflicts of interest corroding our civic life. Corrupt Illinois lays out a blueprint to transform our politics from a pay-to-play–driven marketplace into what it should be: an instrument of public good.
Issues for the Illinois Constitutional Convention
Author | : Illinois. Constitution Research Group |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Illinois |
ISBN | : |
Problems of Constitutional Revision in Illinois
Author | : Illinois. General Assembly. Legislative Council |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
ISBN | : |
Issue Politics in Congress
Author | : Tracy Sulkin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005-10-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781139448611 |
Do representatives and senators respond to the critiques raised by their challengers? This study, one of the first to explore how legislators' experiences as candidates shape their subsequent behavior as policy makers, demonstrates that they do. Winning legislators regularly take up their challengers' priority issues from the last campaign and act on them in office, a phenomenon called 'issue uptake'. This attentiveness to their challengers' issues reflects a widespread and systematic yet largely unrecognized mode of responsiveness in the US Congress, but it is one with important benefits for the legislators who undertake it and for the health and legitimacy of the representative process. This book provides fresh insight into questions regarding the electoral connection in legislative behavior, the role of campaigns and elections, and the nature and quality of congressional representation.