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Tales from the Sausage Factory : Making Laws in New York State.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Excelsior Editions SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (394 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438434032
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tales from the Sausage FactoryDDC classification:
  • 328.73092
LOC classification:
  • F128.3.F45 -- A3 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Tales from the Sausage Factory -- Tales from the Sausage Factory -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Prologue-The Senate Scandal of 2009 -- CHAPTER I : Getting the Job and Starting It: Politics, Ethics, Values -- CHAPTER II: What Counts When Legislators Decide -- CHAPTER III: How Things Work -- CHAPTER IV: Playing by the Rules, and Changing Them -- CHAPTER V: The Organized Crime Control Act -- CHAPTER VI: Getting into the Prisons and Drugs Business -- CHAPTER VII: Reforming the Rockefeller Drug Laws -- CHAPTER VIII: Beating the Leadership,Winning in the Courts: Sex Offenders and Megan's Law -- CHAPTER IX: Guns-The Struggle in the Legislature and Courts -- CHAPTER X: Life in the Legislature: Politics and Lawmaking -- CHAPTER XI: The New York State Legislature-On Balance -- Sources -- Appendix -- Index of Names -- Subject Index -- Index of Cases.
Summary: A former state legislator and a political scientist team up to show how New York's legislature was once the nation's model professional legislature, and how it might recover from its present dysfunction.
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Tales from the Sausage Factory -- Tales from the Sausage Factory -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Prologue-The Senate Scandal of 2009 -- CHAPTER I : Getting the Job and Starting It: Politics, Ethics, Values -- CHAPTER II: What Counts When Legislators Decide -- CHAPTER III: How Things Work -- CHAPTER IV: Playing by the Rules, and Changing Them -- CHAPTER V: The Organized Crime Control Act -- CHAPTER VI: Getting into the Prisons and Drugs Business -- CHAPTER VII: Reforming the Rockefeller Drug Laws -- CHAPTER VIII: Beating the Leadership,Winning in the Courts: Sex Offenders and Megan's Law -- CHAPTER IX: Guns-The Struggle in the Legislature and Courts -- CHAPTER X: Life in the Legislature: Politics and Lawmaking -- CHAPTER XI: The New York State Legislature-On Balance -- Sources -- Appendix -- Index of Names -- Subject Index -- Index of Cases.

A former state legislator and a political scientist team up to show how New York's legislature was once the nation's model professional legislature, and how it might recover from its present dysfunction.

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