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Chapter Six The Colorado General Assembly: It Ain’t What It Used to Be
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction State of Change: Colorado Politics in the Twenty-First Century 1
- Chapter One Colorado: Sometimes Red and Sometimes Blue 19
- Chapter Two What’s Going On? The Shifting Terrain of Federal Elections in Colorado 39
- Chapter Three Colorado’s Central Role in the 2008 Presidential Election Cycle 67
- Chapter Four Impact of Direct Democracy on Colorado State Politics 89
- Chapter Five Colorado’s New Election Day World 115
- Chapter Six The Colorado General Assembly: It Ain’t What It Used to Be 131
- Chapter Seven How GAVEL Changed Party Politics in Colorado’s General Assembly 153
- Chapter Eight Disparate Impact: Term Limits, Female Representatives, and the Colorado State Legislature 175
- Chapter Nine One Thing after Another: Layers of Policy and Colorado’s Fiscal Train Wreck 195
- Chapter Ten Financial Architecture of Post-Republican Colorado 217
- Epilogue The State of Change Changes Again 235
- Contributors 249
- Index 251
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction State of Change: Colorado Politics in the Twenty-First Century 1
- Chapter One Colorado: Sometimes Red and Sometimes Blue 19
- Chapter Two What’s Going On? The Shifting Terrain of Federal Elections in Colorado 39
- Chapter Three Colorado’s Central Role in the 2008 Presidential Election Cycle 67
- Chapter Four Impact of Direct Democracy on Colorado State Politics 89
- Chapter Five Colorado’s New Election Day World 115
- Chapter Six The Colorado General Assembly: It Ain’t What It Used to Be 131
- Chapter Seven How GAVEL Changed Party Politics in Colorado’s General Assembly 153
- Chapter Eight Disparate Impact: Term Limits, Female Representatives, and the Colorado State Legislature 175
- Chapter Nine One Thing after Another: Layers of Policy and Colorado’s Fiscal Train Wreck 195
- Chapter Ten Financial Architecture of Post-Republican Colorado 217
- Epilogue The State of Change Changes Again 235
- Contributors 249
- Index 251