All Articles tagged gridlock

• State Constitutional Commentary
  December 02, 2015 EDT
  CONSTRAINED BEHAVIOR: UNDERSTANDING THE ENTRENCHMENT OF LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE IN AMERICAN STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
  Nancy Martorano MillerKeith E. HammRonald D. Hedlund

  This study presents a quantitative measure of constitutional restrictiveness and explores the variation in this measure across the fifty state legislatures and the U.S. Congress.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  September 23, 2013 EDT
  AUTOMATIC LIEUTENANT GUBERNATORIAL SUCCESSION: PREVENTING LEGISLATIVE GRIDLOCK WITHOUT SACRIFICING THE ELECTIVE PRINCIPLE
  Patrick A. Woods

  This article is an attempt to find a solution to the problem of lieutenant gubernatorial succession in New York.