... (with the exception of Nigel Lawson's) never mention them. Promises and practices affecting the economy, health care, education, and crime may influence elections; legal services are electorally insignificant. This chapter, therefore, speculates on the implications of party platforms and policies for the positions...

... patterns in the U.S. and eight other similar advanced industrial countries (AICs). It provides a comparison of beliefs about the benefits of trade the 9 identified AICs; analysis of parties’ position taking and trade’s salience in the party platforms of those countries since 1920, and two comparative case...

... Simpson Alan Specter Arlen Thomas Clarence Alito Samuel confirmation hearing of Brownback Sam Kohl Herb Kyl John Party platforms position on judicial activism Political rhetoric Schafly Phyllis Democratic Party platforms Pledge of Allegiance First Amendment rights and Republican Party...

... to the party conventions, by party, 1972–2004. This chapter presents new evidence on the party platforms from 1928 to 2020 and the parties’ stands on the Supreme Court. It documents the parties’ focus on particular ‘hot-button’ Supreme Court cases and issue areas. It also scrutinizes policy requirements...

... ideology party platforms policy outputs policy profiles policy‐making proportional representation Political parties play a vital role in the democratic process, especially when it comes to the making of public policy. Parties structure the policy process by aggregating issues and presenting voters...

... systematic examinations of evidence from books, newspapers, party platforms, State of the Union addresses, bills, and congressional hearings, it shows that when crisis was first applied to US politics, it was used infrequently, attached mainly to a narrow set of political and economic issues such as wars...

..., and gridlock. We introduce six data series—public opinion, party platforms, policy processes, government speeches, parliamentary questions, bills and laws—that comprise agenda-setting in Germany. The data for these political activities are obtained from official sources. We delineate the processing and coding...

... Public Citizen trade flows economic beliefs party platforms policy salience U.S. economic conditions trade partners representation roll call votes a clear gap exists between mass sentiment concerning trade and trade agreements and US policies supporting liberalization. However...

...This chapter focuses on the fourth and final religious signal: engaging in morality politics. Morality politics is an approach that elevates political issues into symbolic, moral battles. The evidence in this chapter comes from Republican and Democratic party platforms since 1932. It considers five...