Scope and Contents From the Collection: The research for this series was requested and funded in large part by the Heinz Endowments and the William Penn Foundation but also by Temple. Its purpose was to assist the General Assembly in representing citizens, making laws, and balancing the other branches. The DVD and text Volume 1, "The Pennsylvania General Assembly Before and After the 1968 Legislative Modernization Commission: The Evolution of an Institution," is an institutional history that focuses on the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The research for this series was requested and funded in large part by the Heinz Endowments and the William Penn Foundation but also by Temple. Its purpose was to assist the General Assembly in representing citizens, making laws, and balancing the other branches. The DVD and text Volume 1, "The Pennsylvania General Assembly Before and After the 1968 Legislative Modernization Commission: The Evolution of an Institution," is an institutional history that focuses on the...

Scope and Contents The Pennsylvania Policy Database Project is a free, online resource that provides access to more than 160,000 state and news media records and enables users to trace and analyze with a few mouse clicks the history of public policy in the Commonwealth since 1979. Designed for easy use by educators, students, researchers, policy makers, news reporters, and the general public, it is the first comprehensive state policy database of its kind.The project was built by Temple University...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The research for this series was requested and funded in large part by the Heinz Endowments and the William Penn Foundation but also by Temple. Its purpose was to assist the General Assembly in representing citizens, making laws, and balancing the other branches. The DVD and text Volume 1, "The Pennsylvania General Assembly Before and After the 1968 Legislative Modernization Commission: The Evolution of an Institution," is an institutional history that focuses on the...

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The DVD and text Volume 1, "The Pennsylvania General Assembly Before and After the 1968 Legislative Modernization Commission: The Evolution of an Institution," is an institutional history that focuses on the legislature's bipartisan and bicameral decision to move from a part-time to a full-time body.

Contains a DVD and printed book.

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The DVD and text Volume 2, "The Pennsylvania General Assembly's Greatest Achievements and he Parties' Roles in Enacting Important Laws: 1968-2008," complements the institutional history by providing a policy history by two undergraduate interns in Temple's Pennsylvania Capital Semester.

Includes a DVD and printed volume

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The DVD and text Volume 3, "The Rules of the Game: How the Constitution Affects Lawmaking in Pennsylvania," features a discussion by legal experts of the ways in which the courts have interpreted constitutional provisions constraining legislative procedures

Inclues a DVD and printed volume.

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The final DVD and text Volume 4 presents data and summarizes opinions on instututional changes that have been advocated in Pennsylvania and/or tried in other states.

Included on the 4th and final DVD and printed volume

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Volume 5 reviews more than 180 scholarly books and articles about how all 50 state legislatures conduct their business, with an eye toward possible lessons for Pennsylvania.

Included on the 4th and final DVD.