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RECENT RESEARCH ON LEADERSHIP IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAS EMPHASIZED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW "STRATEGY OF INCLUSION," BY WHICH PARTY RANK-AND-FILE MEMBERS ARE INCLUDED TO A MUCH LARGER EXTENT IN THE PARTY DECISION-MAKING PROCESS, AND HENCE BECOME MORE RESPONSIVE TO LEADERSHIP PRESSURES. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE USE OF ONE SUCH MECHANISM OF INCLUSION, THE SPEAKER'S TASK FORCE, UTILIZED IN THE HOUSE DURING THE LATE 1970S. A MODEL IS DEVELOPED TO TEST THE PROCESS BY WHICH HOUSE MEMBERS ARE SELECTED TO SERVE ON TASK FORCES. TWO MAJOR SETS OF MOTIVATIONS ARE SEEN AS UNDELYING THE SELECTION PROCESS: (1) THE SHORT-TERM GOAL BY HOUSE LEADERS TO MAXIMIZE THE PROBABILITY THAT IMPORTANT LEGISLATION FOR WHICH TASK FORCES ARE CREATED WILL PASS THE HOUSE; AND (2) THE LONG-TERM GOAL OF INCLUSION AND THE ASSOCIATED SOCIALIZATION OF RANK-AND-FILE PARTY MEMBERS INTO PARTISANSHIP AND/OR FOLLOWERSHIP ROLES. BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF TASK FORCE MEMBERSHIP LISTS, SUBSTANTIAL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IS FOUND FOR BOTH MOTIVATIONS DURING THE PERIOD UNDER STUDY, ALTHOUGH VARIABLES REPRESENTING THE SHORT-TERM GOALS OF HOUSE LEADERS TEND TO DOMINATE THE TASK FORCE SELECTION PROCESS.

Supplementing Government Ownership of Electric Utilities, by Julia E. Johnsen [Reference Shelf. Volume 10. Number 9]

Three-track airport runway elevation profiles and airplane response to runway roughness. ; Prepared at Langley Research Center. ; Chiefly statistical tables. ; "November 1969." ; Cover title. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 3). ; Three-track airport runway elevation profiles and airplane response to runway roughness. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record ; Hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') was a controversial issue in the United Kingdom which sparked national and community-led groups to organise protest mobilisations. However, to date, the social science literature has largely focused upon general anti-fracking discourse rather than on the physical, community-led mobilisations that emerged from the frustrations of people directly affected at a local level by threats to their community. The paper develops and applies a novel conceptualisation of political opportunity structures at the nexus of the national and local levels to more fully explore the usually overlooked role of local-level structures in interaction with the national level in shaping protest. It uses protest event analysis with data derived from two key activist-specific sources. The analysis draws on data from over 1,400 protests occurring across sixty-nine counties from 2011-2019. In so doing, this paper observes and accounts for variance in the form and frequency of community-led anti-fracking protest events within and between different areas of England across the life course of the protest episodes. The paper finds that trends in protest frequency and form over time correlate to shifts in opportunity structures, particularly regarding local and national level interaction, and that this can be usefully conceptualised through a local-national-state-nexus. ; Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)