Penn gave little particular thought to Pennsylvania’s governance–other than to copy the English sub-state political institutions/structures on paper into his Frame of Governance. After all
Category: As the Twig is Bent
4.7 Assembly Bypasses Proprietor Sub-State Policy System: the Pennsylvania County and Township: Highways, Bridges and Ferries
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
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