Robin Hayes of North Carolina's 8th District announced, "I am flat-out, completely, horizontally opposed to CAFTA." But Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert persuaded Hayes to switch his vote by telling him: "In return for your vote, we will do whatever is necessary to help the people in the 8th District." Gordon Tullock, the famous public-choice theorist, explained how this
logrolling can produce policies that few people really want and impose a net cost for each citizen.
Single-subject rules prevent even less effective attempts at
logrolling. (56) In theory, even without repeat play, one minority group could cut a deal with others to combine unrelated issues into a single omnibus ballot initiative, which could pass with their combined support.
(433) For him, "[b]ack-scratching and
logrolling are signs of a healthy political system, not a corrupt one." (434) Rauch accepts the inevitability of a "war" on corruption.
A few lines later, we are told that they will apply to "apples produced in the States named above except Washington, Oregon, and Idaho." Reading between the lines, one can almost see the backroom deals and
logrolling trades.
Such men were not his heroes, in fact he had a marked distaste for those
logrolling Tammany Hall politicians at a local level whom he forever associated with the Labour Party and also unreasonably blanketed with the Welsh W Rugby Union despite its non-political nature.
Firstly,
Logrolling, schema number six in this study, was noticeably less in use among Japanese than among the Finnish negotiators studied.
In response to Congressional
logrolling, "flexible tariff" authority was slipped into the Act to enable the President to modify rates after it was passed, sometimes by as much as 50 percent.
Did you know that four women from Idaho once owned the sport of
logrolling? From 1958 to 1972, the quartet won 11 world titles at the Lumberjack World Championships held in Hayward, Wis.
BOSTON -- With the former chief of the trial court on the stand, the defense in the trial of three former Probation Department managers attempted Wednesday to show him acting in much the same way the defendants behaved, hiring a politically connect job-seeker with questionable qualifications and
logrolling for his brother.
The court then stated the beneficial aspects of the single-subject rule, noting that it facilitated orderly procedure, avoided surprise, prevented
logrolling, raised awareness of legislation for the public and members of the legislature, and helped preserve the separation of powers.
There are some who think we should resurrect (at least to a certain extent) the old "pork barrel" approach or the "
logrolling" concept.
This strategy succeeded with NAFTA, though barely: once the American public began to learn what was in the agreement, the Clinton White House and NAFTA proponents in Congress had to resort to all-out deception, bribery, and political arm-twisting and
logrolling to push it through.
Even so, deem-and-pass plainly constitutes a form of "
logrolling," a practice disfavored in the vast majority of state constitutions and that drew the ire of angry constituents going back to the time of the Roman Republic.
Critics have always had to be interrogated this way (what dendritic history of
logrolling lay behind the rave about that book?), but with the Web, a thousand critics have bloomed.
