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April 30, 2012
The Temple Papers on the Pennsylvania General Assembly- Volume III
The Rules of the Game: How the Constitution Affects Lawmaking in Pennsylvania
March 26, 2012
The Institute for Public Affairs introduces The Temple Papers on the Pennsylvania General Assembly, a five-volume series that aims to assist the our legislature in representing citizens, making laws, and balancing the other branches. See below for the announcement of the papers and Volumes I and II of the series. Other volumes will be published on the IPA website shortly.
Letter Announcing The Temple Papers on the General Assembly
December 16, 2011
Joseph P. McLaughlin, Jr., PhD, Director, Institute for Public Affairs
This brief history of the Pennsylvania General Assembly focuses on its institutional evolution around a key turning point: the bipartisan, bicameral vote to move from a part-time to a full-time legislature in 1968. This topic was the subject of a February 28, 2011, symposium for House and Senate members in the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
November 22, 2011
Temple's University's Institute for Public Affairs in collaboration with Temple University's Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project has just released:
This policy report focuses on the constitutionally mandated legislative reapportionment undertaken every ten years following the decennial Census. It exploresthe competing factors that come into play when legislators draw newdistrict lines and considers the practical implications thatwould accompany maximizing the competitive vote in the region.
October 25, 2011
The Rules of the Game: The Constitution and the Lawmaking Process
Research Note: Constitutional Constraints on Lawmaking
Presented and Provided at the Pennsylvania General Assembly Members' Symposium
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Policy Forum
February 28, 2011
Presented to the Pennsylvania General Assembly Members’ Symposium
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Policy Forum
December 2, 2010
April 6, 2010
Testimony delivered on PA General Assembly HB 260, proposed legislation on abolishing the PA Senate, House Democratic Policy Committee, given by IPA Director, Joseph P. McLaughlin
March 26, 2010
Thoughts on Pennsylvania Political Reforms, panel talk delivered at the 2010 Pennsylvania Political Science Association Conference by IPA Director, Joseph P. McLaughlin
March 23, 2010
On March 23, 2010, the Institute for Public Affairs welcomed students and guests for a discussion on the current and future role of the Republican Party in Philadelphia city politics.
Special guests included:
- Michael Meehan-
Meehan is Counsel to the Republican City Committee since 1994 and leader of the Philadelphia GOP, the third generation of Meehans to have led the GOP since Mayor Barney Samuel. Barney Samuel was the city's last Republican Mayor, from 1941 to 1952. - Sam Katz
Katz is a Philadelphia businessman and politician, who had three unsuccessful attempts at the Mayor's office as the Republican candidate. He ran in 1991, 1993 and 2003. - Al Schmidt
The Republican candidate for City Controller in 2009, Schmidt is the former Executive Director of the Republican City Committee. He was recently hired by state Republican Committee Chairman Rob Gleason as "senior advisor" to the state Republican Party.
See the story from the Temple Times.