Let’s start out with some contemporary Pennsylvania statistics on sub-state governments, generously provided to us by the the 2017 Census of Governments. Pennsylvania presently enjoys
Category: As the Twig is Bent
4.8 Provincial Politics: How Quaker Culture Facilitated Legislative Quaker Party versus Proprietary Branch War; Formation of a Sort of, Kind Of Two Branches Competitive Policy System with Quaker Party as Political Party-Machine
Provincial-colonial initial political structures and evolving relationships among levels of government are profoundly affected and shaped by the infusion of political culture into politics, policy-making,
4.83 General Assembly Asserts Itself: Taxes, Finances-Credit: Two Party Policy System During the 1720’s
A history that concentrates upon economic development is necessarily drawn to select case studies and examples that relate to that policy area. The argument advanced
Establishing a Policy System Is Easier Said than Done: Building Upon Lessons Learned from Virginia and Penn’s First Twenty Years in Pennsylvania
This module is a mixture of personalities, political structures and institutions, politics and the “making of a policy system”. The policy system started in 1701
6. Birthing Policy Systems and Political Structures in Penn’s Pennsylvania: English Governance of Cities by Municipal Corporation Like Wine did not Travel Well
Our Virginia chapter uncovered a state policy system in which the state level legislatures were populated with, and dominated by, local elites. Policy outputs tilted
New England Town and Puritanism–Shareholders in Land Development Companies
The New England Puritans, however, demonstrated their (Progressive) sense of governance by establishing towns as a community enterprise which accommodated a strong state-level government with
Ron W. Coan 