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| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The newsletter of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. | | | | Date Created: | | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054634 Original UID: FIRST WORD: Review | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2004 January | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | During the 20th Century Illinois always enjoyed the status of being a bellwether state meaning that it was a microcosm of the nation. | | | | Date Created: | 05-13-2005 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 1 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054640 Original UID: 176050 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| | | 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: | 2005 September | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Illinois and its neighboring Midwestern states face substantial water resources problems that form policy challenges and dilemmas. | | | | Date Created: | 09-22-2005 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 3 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054642 Original UID: 176052 FIRST WORD: Water | |
| | | 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: | 2006 September | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Kent Redfield used to tell a great story while on the speaking circuit in 1996. To describe a weakness in Illinois campaign finance laws, he explained that if a terrorist organization filed a routine semiannual report with the Illinois State Board of Elections and declared its purpose to be the assassination of public officials, the elections boards only role would be to make certain that the group had filed the paperwork properly. That's because the board had no authority to begin an investigation or to question what was in a candidates reports. Illinois laws regarding campaign finance disclosure had no teeth, and they had changed very little in the two decadessince being enacted in 1974. | | | | Date Created: | 10-06-2006 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 5 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054644 Original UID: 176054 FIRST WORD: Still | |
| | | 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: | 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: | 2007 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | If my friend Tom Eagleton had lived a few more months, Im sure he would have been amazed and amused in a Tom Eagleton sort of way - by the astonishing story of Alberto Gonzales late night visit to John Aschrofts hospital bed in 2004 to persuade the then attorney general to reauthorize a questionable intelligence operation related to the presidents warrantless wiretapping program. No vignette better encapsulates President George W. Bushs perversion of the rule of law. | | | | Date Created: | 08-30-2007 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 8 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054647 Original UID: 176057 FIRST WORD: Tom | |
| | | 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: | 2008 March | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Mid-major American universities spend a great deal of money on intercollegiate athletics. For example, the University of Buffalo recently spent $10-20 million to join NCAA Division One, and Southern Illinois University plans to spend $80 million to improve athletic facilities. Much of this money is spent because coaches and administrators see athletic success as a path to national recognition for their institutions. High-prestige competitions like the mens NCAA basketball tournament are perceived as fair games that all schools have a chance to win, andregional universities invest millions in attempts to win them. This paper tests the logic of thisbehavior, by examining the success rates of several categories of schools over the past 10 NCAAtournaments. In fact, when examined statistically, the tournament is not a fair game. The last 10champions have been wealthy universities from elite football conferences, as have 131 of the past 160 Sweet Sixteen entrants. Only one mid-major program has made the Final Four during the past decade. Colleges and regional universities have little chance of winning the tournament, and should consider reevaluating how they spend their limited budgets. | | | | Date Created: | 03-25-2008 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 10 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054649 Original UID: 176059 FIRST WORD: Ball | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2008 July | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The 2008 nominations process will certainly go down in history as one of the longest, most contentious, and most expensive in the nations history. It was also one of the most interesting and exciting ever. The race had more officially declared candidates, had more money spent on it, and for the Democrats was more closely contested than any race in recent history. | | | | Date Created: | 08-11-2008 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 11 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054650 Original UID: 176060 FIRST WORD: The | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 January | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In Fall 2008, The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale conducted its first statewide public opinion survey since 2004. Topics included the general direction of the country, the state, and respondents respective areas of the state; benchmark quality of life measures for education, public safety, the environment, and the economy; opinions on important public issues, such as a proposal to amend the Illinois Constitution to allow recall of statewide elected officials and theproposed Constitutional Convention; and opinions on judicial selection issues in the state. | | | | Date Created: | 02-10-2009 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054651 Original UID: 176061 FIRST WORD: Confronting | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2009 February | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | On November 4, 2008 the junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, was elected the 44th President of the United States. Obama was the first president to be elected from Illinois since the Civil War era. | | | | Date Created: | 02-09-2009 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 13 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054652 Original UID: 176063 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: | 2009 November | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute is pleased to publish this paper from Dr. Stephen L. Wasby who is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University at Albany-SUNY. Steve, who is a former Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is a nationally recognized expert in the field of constitutional law and judicial processes. In this paper he surveys the various plans for selecting judges utilized by the fifty states. These plans break down broadly into elective versus appointive systems with those who use elections further distinguished by partisan versus non-partisan elections. The most popular plan is the Merit Selection or Missouri Plan which originated in our neighboring state. This plan has received much attention lately and it is the one most directly addressed in Wasbys paper. | | | | Date Created: | 11-03-2009 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 15 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054654 Original UID: 176065 FIRST WORD: Selecting | |
| | | 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 February | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale conducted its second annual statewide public opinion survey in the fall of 2009. As in the inaugural survey in 2008, the Institute asked Illinoisans about their quality of life and about ways to deal with the states crippling budget deficitswhether cutting government spending or enhancing revenues. We also asked their opinions on a number of political and electoral reform ideas that had been well publicized over the summer of 2009 by the Illinois Reform Commission, appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn. Quinns takeover from the impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to promise a new era of cleaner, more transparent government. | | | | Date Created: | 02-03-2010 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 17 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054656 Original UID: 176067 FIRST WORD: Ethical | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2010 March | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This paper examines the recent history of state appropriated funding for higher education in Illinois. It covers the fourteen years from Fiscal Year 1997 through 2010. It also reviews some of the most important literature on public budgeting and relates that academic literature to the recent record of how the State of Illinois has handled its budgets over the past few years and what this has meant to the agencies of the state in terms of planning and decision making. The paper takes some of the abstract and theoretical literature and applies it to the very real case study of educations struggle with recent budgeting decisions in Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 04-14-2010 | | | | Agency ID: | Paper # 18 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000054657 Original UID: 176068 FIRST WORD: Higher | |
| | | 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 | |
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