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Bipartisn Bills From Caucus Collaboration: Solutions To Polarized Or Non-Polarized Issues?, Kaitlin Holden

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This paper investigates whether caucus members pursue bipartisan collaboration on bills related to polarized or non-polarized policy issues. The aim is to determine whether caucuses may be used to pursue bipartisan solutions to major policy issues in an increasingly polarized political environment. I model the effect that the presence of a women’s caucus has on bipartisan collaboration in increasingly polarized legislatures, depending on whether a bill’s title contains words related to polarized issues and its overall sentiment. Findings indicate that bipartisan women may be more likely to collaborate on polarized bills then non-polarized bills in legislatures with a women’s caucus …

Summary Of Efforts To Increase Sales Tax By 1/2%, Gary N. Anderson

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

The 39th Legislature was faced with a well-organized lobby promoting the adoption of an increase in the sales tax to help the cities of the State of Utah meet their increasing financial plight, particularly in financing the needs of law enforcement. This paper will outline, from an observer's viewpoint, the background of this movement; its initial approaches; its later attempts; and finally its failure.

This is an examination of one particular issue which contains several elements which have continuing significance. 1)The move to adopt the 1/2% sales tax was well-publicized and was quite visible to the public. 2)It had widespread …

Analysis Of The Utah State Legislature, James Larry Earl

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A study of the 1965 and 1967 sessions of the Utah State Legislature was conducted upon completion and publication of the 1967 journals. The objective of this study was to evaluate on a qualitative and quantitative basis the different institutional variables that influence the outcome of the legislature.

The selection of these variables was made by the author and Dr. Emenhiser after surveying the method to be used and the limitation of the data . In all, nineteen were picked. They are as follows:

History Of The Reorganization Of Utah's State Administrative Government By The Twenty-Fourth Legislature, Desmond L. Anderson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In the evening of January 13, 1941, Herbert B. Maw, who was then beginning his first term as Governor of the state of Utah, addressed his first legislative message to a joint session of the 1941 Utah Legislature from the rostrum of the chamber of the House of Representatives. An overwhelming amount of the Governor's message was devoted to a multifaceted topic, the reorganization of Utah's state administration.

After extensively deploring state structural and political organization as it existed at that time, Governor Maw declared:

The plan which I shall now propose is a product of the recommendations of the …

A Study Of Bicameral And Unicameral State Legislative Systems, With Special Reference To Utah's Needs, Wendell Bryan Anderson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Legislatures originated to advise and subsequently to curb autocrats who claimed to rule under Divine mandate. The people's struggle through the centuries to build a bulwark against oppression and tyranny is particularized by Sparta's Senate, Athens Council and Assembly of Four Hundred, Rome's Senate of Elders and Comitis Curiate, Charlemangne's Imperial Assembly, and Saxon England's Witenagamot. The archeotype of America's lawmaking bodies, nevertheless, is not found in Greece or Rome, but rather in the British Parliament as it was anciently composed.