| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 August | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2012 the Illinois Presidential Primary was an important strategic victory for Mitt Romney in his march to the Republican Presidential nomination. It was a timely victory set at an important juncture in the complicated nominations calendar and one which helped boost his claim to be the party's favorite and the strongest candidate for the fall contest with President Obama. | | | | Date Created: | 08-01-2012 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 32 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054671 Original UID: 176082 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 May | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This paper will explore the changes proposed by the recent Illinois Reform Commission, many of which have been tried in other states. Within the political science literature there is much discussion on how these policies work. Recent polls in Illinois show that voters of the state are deeply dissatisfied with their state government (Crow, 2010; Leonard, 2010, The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, 2010). Thus, any measures which may reduce the level of alienation and distrust are worth examining. This paper will review the available and relevant literature on the Illinois Reform Commissions recommendations and apply it to Illinois in anattempt to weigh the possible benefits of adopting such policies. | | | | Date Created: | 05-18-2010 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 19 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054658 Original UID: 176069 FIRST WORD: Institutional | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 October | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 1972 a group of Illinois legislators and a lobbyist were indicted for taking bribes from Material Services Corporation to insure the passage of a bill that would help the company transport heavy materials on Illinois roads. In what became known as the Cement Bribery Trial four legislators, including a former Speaker of the House, and a lobbyist were convicted in October of 1976. Two legislators and Lester Crown, the chief executive of Material Services, testified against the defendants.i The company executive was granted immunity and not indicted, while the two legislators were sentenced under plea agreements. Twenty other members of the General Assembly were linked to the bribery scheme by testimony at the trial, but were not indicted. | | | | Date Created: | 10-22-2012 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 33 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054672 Original UID: 176083 FIRST WORD: Lessons | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2006 August | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois may prove to be one of the most significant in American history. Perhaps not since the Senate election of 1858, when Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln, has one Senate election had such an impact on the nationalleadership cadre. | | | | Date Created: | 09-06-2006 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 4 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054643 Original UID: 176053 FIRST WORD: Making | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 July | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 1972, when I was teaching in the history department of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the late Senator Paul Simon, then Lieutenant Governor, lost in the Democratic primary for Governor of Illinois. I was sad and said to myself that if he ever ran again, I would help in his campaign. | | | | Date Created: | 08-08-2010 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 21 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054660 Original UID: 176071 FIRST WORD: The | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 January | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute conducted its inaugural statewide public opinion survey in the fall of 2008, with the hope of compiling a time series of Illinois voters opinions on important public policy issues of the day. This issue of the Simon Review presents an analysis of the fourth annual Simon Poll, conducted October 11 - 16, 2011. | | | | Date Created: | 01-30-2012 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 27 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054666 Original UID: 176077 FIRST WORD: The | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 March | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The present paper was written as an analysis of the proposed capital budget plan which is being considered by the State of Illinois and which has been a major item on the political agenda in the state for well approximately two years. | | | | Date Created: | 04-16-2009 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 14 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054653 Original UID: 176064 FIRST WORD: On | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 September | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | During the fall of 2012, Decatur residents were subjected to a barrage of political ads promoting and attacking the two candidates for the 48th District seat in the Illinois Senate. Decatur Mayor Mike McElroy, the Republican candidate, and Andy Manar, who at the time was the Chairman of the Macoupin County Board, spent more than $2.5 million and saturated the airwaves with commercials. Without an incumbent on the ballot, this newly drawn Senate district was a priority for both political parties. | | | | Date Created: | 09-12-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 38 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054677 Original UID: 176088 FIRST WORD: Partisanship, | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2007 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Campaigns and elections in Illinois are always interesting and exciting spectacles. They are full of colorful characters, great plots, and unexpected twists to the story line. Each election brings new characters and different stories, but each builds on the rich tradition and culture of a big and diverse state which takes its politics and politicians quite seriously. A state which over the last half century has produced such notables as Everett Dirksen, Paul Douglas, Adlai Stevenson, Jr., Charles Percy, Paul Simon, Alan Dixon, Richard Ogilvie, Dan Walker, Dan Rostenkowski, Richard J. Daley, Harold Washington, Richard M. Daley, Russell Arrington, Phil Rock, Michael Madigan, Pate Phillip, Roland Burris, George Ryan, Jim Edgar, Jim Thompson, Richard Durbin, Barack Obama, Emil Jones, Judy Barr Topinka, and Rod Blagojevich clearly has a great political culture and a compelling political history. We have had our scoundrels and some have ended up in federal prison. We have had our statesmen of the past and some of our present leaders hold national office with great prominence and prospects for national leadership. | | | | Date Created: | 07-26-2007 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 7 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054646 Original UID: 176056 FIRST WORD: Party | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 Fall | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The newsletter of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. | | | | Date Created: | 05-04-2012 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054698 Original UID: 176113 FIRST WORD: Paul | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2011 Summer | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The newsletter of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. | | | | Date Created: | 06-03-2011 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054696 Original UID: 176111 FIRST WORD: Paul | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2016 April | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Patient Protection Act and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have granted health care coverage to 11.7 million people since 2014,1 yet many people still slip through the cracks. | | | | Date Created: | 04-25-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper #46 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000058990 Original UID: 180181 FIRST WORD: Perspectives | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 February | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This paper describes and analyzes President Obamas 2012 election victory in Illinois and compares it to his earlier victory in 2008 in his home state. It also extends the analysis back through the 2004 and 2000 presidential elections and shows how those results were similar and where they differed. It primarily relies on the county and county election returns supplemented by U. S. Census data as the unit of analysis. The paper sets Illinois into a national electoral context describing what is happening in an era of deep partisan polarization coupled with the prospects for a partisan realignment. | | | | Date Created: | 02-14-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 34 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054673 Original UID: 176084 FIRST WORD: President | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 December | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | As the nation races into the 2016 presidential elections season, it is worthwhile to stop the headlong rush and take a look back and see what we may have learned from our recent history, specifically what that history can teachus about our presidential elections and theirlong-term impact on the political system, howpublic policy is made and the prospects for anyparty to be able to govern in modern Americawhen the nation is so deeply divided by partisanship,ideology, geography, class and race. | | | | Date Created: | 01-03-2016 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper #44 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000058988 Original UID: 180179 FIRST WORD: Presidential | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 January | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The 2007â€2008 presidential nominations season will go down in the record books as the longest, the most expensive, the most front loaded, the most debated, the most unpredictable and the most contentious presidential nominations contest in American history. Part of the reason for the scope and depth of the highly public conflict was the fact that this was the first time since 1952 when a sitting president or vice president was not a serious contender for the nomination of one of the two major parties. | | | | Date Created: | 12-26-2007 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 9 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054648 Original UID: 176058 FIRST WORD: Presidential | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2007 February | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Unpopular wars inevitably lead to sharp conflicts between presidents and the press over the control of secret information. National security secrets find their way into print because government officials assigned to carry out questionable policies leak secret documents to reporters. The government responds to publication with threats of civil legal action and criminal prosecution. The Vietnam War produced the Pentagon Papers case in which the government unsuccessfully sought a prior restraint on the publication of a classified history of the Vietnam War. Now, Iraq-related cases have led to jail for some reporters, threats of jail for others and warnings of criminal prosecution for still others. These cases, taken together, threaten to criminalize news gathering of national security secrets. | | | | Date Created: | 04-17-2007 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 6 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054645 Original UID: 176055 FIRST WORD: Publishing | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2005 April | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Redistricting in Illinois is a challenging and contentious political game which must be played every ten years. The rules of the game consist of a maze of federal constitutional and legal requirements supplemented by the constitution and laws of the state of Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 04-18-2005 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 2 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054641 Original UID: 176051 FIRST WORD: Redistricting | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 April | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | States regularly redraw the boundaries of their congressional districts and their legislative districts. The United States Constitution requires this process to be conducted every ten years,directly following the census. The idea behind regular redistricting efforts is centered on ensuring that each person is equally represented in our government. As populations change, redistricting efforts are meant to ensure that voters continue to be represented equally. However, the process of redistricting has always been a topic of controversy because it has been freighted with concerns the process is unfair, partial, and corrupt. | | | | Date Created: | 04-23-2012 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 30 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054669 Original UID: 176080 FIRST WORD: Redistricting | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 November | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Lecture delivered at the Southern Illinois University School of Law on September 24, 2009. | | | | Date Created: | 11-12-2009 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 16 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054655 Original UID: 176066 FIRST WORD: Reforming | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 June | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In April 2010, The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute fielded the inaugural Southern Illinois Poll. We surveyed 401 registered voters in the region on political, public policy, and cultural issues in order to begin building an opinion database on this sparsely populated, relatively little-studied corner of the state. We hope to field a new Southern Illinois poll every spring. | | | | Date Created: | 06-28-2010 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 20 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054659 Original UID: 176070 FIRST WORD: Results | |
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