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	Buchanan: Collected Works, Buchanan and Tullock, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional ...
		Logrolling seems to occur in many of the institutions of political choice-making in Western democracies.
		Institutions described by this implicit logrolling are characteristic of much of the modern democratic procedure.
		A logrolling system, however, permits the local roads to be kept in repair through the emergence of bargains among voters.
	www.econlib.org /library/Buchanan/buchCv3c10.html (4914 words)

	Woman aims to push logrolling to masses (printable version)
		The sport of logrolling began in the late 1800s when rivers were used to transport logs from remote forests to growing urban areas where they were needed for construction.
		Although river drives ended at the turn of the 19th century, the International Logrolling Association was organized in 1927 to oversee competition rules and host the annual World Logrolling Championships.
		Logrolling classes, training sessions, and competitions now can take place in any body of water, anywhere in the world.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=46525 (843 words)

	WSJ News
		The sport is one of three new events this year, along with in-line racing and racquetball, that bring the festival's total to 30.
		La Crosse is a hotbed for logrolling, mostly due to the efforts of Judy Hoeschler, who is Lizzie's mother and a seven-time world champion in the sport.
		Lizzie Hoeschler finished second in open logrolling - two competitors on the log at the same time, each trying to stay on the longest - at last summer's world championships.
	www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/local/76984.php (584 words)

	The Capital Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Olivia, who will be a junior at West High School this year, has been logrolling since she was 8 years old and saw a class being taught after one of her swimming lessons at the west side YMCA.
		Logrolling used to be a sport practiced by men in flannel shirts for a few months when the northern-most lakes weren't frozen.
		For Roth Judd, the weekend logrolling is a perfect antidote to possible legislative logrolling during the week.
	madison.com /staging/tct/opinion/column/moe/index.php?ntid=47667&... (729 words)

	Sawyer County Record - Hayward, Wisconsin
		Logrolling has played a part in the Fischer family since the early 1920s.
		It is the history of logrolling in the Fischer family (a hobby for some and a professional sport for others) that inspired Jamie to live a life that revolves around the sport.
		Although his top events are boom running and logrolling, Jamie also competes in the spring board tree top, cross-cut sawing, the obstacle pole race, and the racing hot saw or modified hot saw events at other competitions.
	www.haywardwi.com /record/index.php?sect_rank=8&story_id=222862 (888 words)

	thelutheran.org \| On a roll: Lutheran youth are logrolling champions
		Now a veteran at 24, Tina says she is a smarter logroller than she was in her early years, where she depended more on her aggressive nature and energy to knock her opponent off.
		For those unfamiliar with the sport, logrolling developed from the days when men would ride on the logs to break up jams as they floated down the river to the mill.
		She helped create logrolling as a water sports unit of gym class and gave a demonstration.
	www.thelutheran.org /article/article.cfm?article_id=3973 (323 words)

	MABEL'S ONLINE DIARY: Logrolling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In olden days in the country, one logrolling was when a neighbor had cut a lot of timber and needed to get all the logs to a certain place.
		Then another way was,and I guess this is not as dangerous: to assist another in consideration of assistance in return,as among politicians for political interests.
		The logs were rolled to the river, rolled in, and several men got on them and rolled and floated them down the river about 100 ft to a mill where they would be sawed into lumber.
	www.alaweb.com /~mabel/logrolling.html (297 words)

	Amazon.com: logrolling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		That is the kind of logrolling majority that rules the country.
		came to be known as "logrolling," a less incendiary term for...
		a `creature of circumstances' or logrolling as a `victim of fate'...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=logrolling&tag=icongroupinterna&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (911 words)

	Logrolling: A Glossary of Political Economy Terms - Dr. Paul M. Johnson
		A practice common in the U.S. Congress and in many other legislative assemblies in which two (or more) legislators agree for each to trade his vote on one bill he cares little about in exchange for the other's vote on a bill that is personally much more important to him.
		Logrolling is especially common when the legislators are relatively free of control by their national party leaders and are trying to secure votes for bills that will concentrate sizable benefits on their own home districts while spreading most of the costs out over taxpayers in the rest of the country.
		Local projects such as Federally funded dams, bridges, highways, housing projects, VA hospitals, job-training centers, military bases and the like are often pushed through by logrolling.
	www.auburn.edu /~johnspm/gloss/logrolling (170 words)

	Public Politics in an Authoritarian State
		The logrolls that resulted from mutual insistence on contrasting symbols explain why the Brezhnev leadership chose the self-contradictory policy known as "offensive detente": a global offensive against the West appealed to some bureaucrats in the Soviet Union, while detente appealed to others, and offensive detente provided a stable logroll.
		Substitution of symbolism for reality in policy-making combines with logrolling of mutually incompatible policies to inflict high costs on the citizenry of an electoral polity, but the polity persists despite the inefficiency of its policies because most citizens are partisans.
		Symbolism and logrolling sustain citizens' partisan loyalties to politicians in an electoral polity.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /polisci/faculty/anderson/pubpol.html (432 words)

	Logrolling and editorial boards (Signifying Nothing: Tell 'em about it, Joe-Joe!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was always my impression that the entire point of getting on the editorial board of a journal was to grease the skids for your own work to appear in print.
		Perhaps the logrolling potential is lacking in the case of this particular journal—it probably is more effective in the grown-up academic realm, where “put my stuff in
		Then again, most editorial board members in the “real journals” seem to be beyond the need for pubs at all, except as a tool for placing grad students through co-authorship.
	blog.lordsutch.com /archives/3434 (476 words)

	Logrolling: Establishing Consistent Practice
		Logrolling is a common patient care procedure performed by many health care workers.
		The purpose of logrolling is to maintain alignment of the spine while turning and moving the patient who has had spinal surgery or suspected or documented spinal injury.
		Achieving consistency in logrolling practice across patient care settings is particularly challenging, but necessary for patient safety and satisfaction.
	www.spineuniverse.com /displayarticle.php/article289.html (182 words)

	WMTV - News
		Lautenschlager's office is not commenting on the logrolling claims, but it just so happens there is a recently completed legal memorandum on logrolling floating around the capitol.
		Wittenwyler says the minimum wage compromise is not logrolling, because even though it's not all in one bill, it's the same issue.
		All sides agree logrolling is difficult to prove, which may be why no one has ever been prosecuted since it became law in 1911.
	nbc15.madison.com /news/headlines/1591481.html (606 words)

	Welcome to the St. Paul JCC Online
		On Friday February 13th, Jamie Fischer, world champion in the logroll and boom run, held a demonstration in the pool at the JCC.
		Logrolling is a super way to improve balance, concentration, and agility while having a fun time.
		Classes are led by Jamie Fisher, world champion in the logroll and the boom run, and Robin Feickert, aquatics director.
	www.stpauljcc.org /aquatics.html (950 words)

	Columns: The kind of logrolling hated by conservatives, except Feeney
		The kind of logrolling hated by conservatives, except Feeney
		She called it "a classic case of logrolling, which is precisely the kind of enactment to be prevented by the single-subject rule."
		As Clark noted, the Supreme Court has upheld some examples of logrolling legislation, but only when the Legislature or a court had found an underlying crisis.
	www.sptimes.com /News/021801/Columns/The_kind_of_logrollin.shtml (909 words)

	Lumberjack World Championships - Hayward, Wisconsin
		A primary school teacher, Atkinson saw her first tournament as a spectator and from that brief encounter decided right then and there that that was the sport for her.
		Tina holds the distinct record of 10 World Women’s Logrolling titles, and she and her brother JR, are the only sister/brother team to have won 5 consecutive years together.
		Fisher, a college student, attributes his success in the boom run and logrolling to his long family heritage and to his own private boom run set up in his backyard of Stillwater, MN.
	www.lumberjackworldchampionships.com /competitors/log_rollers_boom_runners.php (916 words)

	Alaska Lumberjacks and Logrolling Champions
		They demonstrate their amazing chopping, climbing and logrolling skills and toss in some great laughs for good measure.
		There is also a junior team of logrollers called, The Ketchikan Coho's, and Aubrey and I are both members.
		Casey and Nate, two of the top 10 logrollers in the world, are our head coaches and every spring we can't wait for the pond to warm up.
	www.weekiwis.com /lumberjacks.html (724 words)

	Entertainment - Text
		Welcome to the home of US Logrolling, the national governing body of the sports of log rolling and boom running.
		Also known as the United States Log Rolling Association, US Logrolling is the first nation member of the International Logrolling Association (ILRA).
		Stihl, US Logrolling, and Stillwater Lumberjack Days partner to host the 2007 Stihl Logrolling World Championships in Stillwater, MN on July 20th-22nd.
	www.uslogrolling.org (147 words)

	Boots & Sabers - The blogging will continue until morale improves...
		I suspect that the law against logrolling was put in place in the name of “clean government.” Its intent seems to be to make sure that politicians debate each bill on its own merits and vote it up or down.
		Although a worthy goal, a law against logrolling, like so many other laws passed in the name of “clean government,” does more harm than good.
		A law against logrolling forces those deals into the smoke-filled back rooms (I know - the Capitol is smoke-free.
	www.bootsandsabers.com /index.php/weblog/comments_w_sidebars/4760 (810 words)

	Grappler compares logrolling and wrestling ::
		Post: Outside of wrestling, you do logrolling for a lumberjack show.
		Post: Is there crossover between logrolling and wrestling as far as skills are concerned?
		I think that when I wrestle and a guy has my leg up in the air and you'll see me bouncing around a lot, I think that ties in with logrolling, too.
	www.cstv.com /sports/m-wrestl/uwire/011007aac.html (420 words)

	On the e-Negotiation of Unmatched Logrolling Views - Cheung, Hung, Chiu (ResearchIndex)
		Tradeoff evaluation often requires logrolling, which refers to...
		S.C. Cheung, P.C.K. Hung, D.K.W. Chiu, On the eNegotiation of Unmatched Logrolling Views, in the Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-36), Jan 2003.
		1 Compromise and logroll: comparing the efficiency of two barg..
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /684301.html (624 words)

	ShanaMartin.com \| logrolling
		"The sport of logrolling was a direct result of river driving.
		And so the sport of logrolling was born." Many years later a little 7 year old named Shana signed up for the logrolling class at the Madison YMCA.
		From then on, logrolling became my all time favorite sport.
	www.shanamartin.com /logrolling.html (464 words)

	Logrolling by Donald Katz on MP3 Digital Download
		The area has evolved into a haven for go-cart tracks, water parks, varied family resorts, summer camps, a wildlife museum, the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame ("a Shrine to the World's Anglers"), and best of all, the annual Lumberjack World Championships."
		Donald Katz visits Hayward, Wisconsin in Logrolling to view the sport and meet some of the logrolling champions.
		Logrolling is one of the fascinating profiles featured in The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories by award-winning journalist Donald Katz, available in audio exclusively at audible.com.
	www.learnoutloud.com /Catalog/Biography/Everyday-People/Logrolling/3880 (239 words)

	AmosWEB is Economics: GLOSS*arama
		Every politician can then tell the folks back home that they really only wanted the "one thing" that helped their constituencies the most, but had to vote for "other things" as well.
		Logrolling is big reason our government is big and prone to inefficiency.
		Perfect competition is an idealized market structure that achieves an efficient allocation of resources.
	www.amosweb.com /cgi-bin/awb_nav.pl?s=gls&c=dsp&k=logrolling (358 words)

	Sawyer County Record - Hayward, Wisconsin
		Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 08:45:26 AM So how is your logrolling training going in the Iraqi desert, JR Salzman?
		The six-time world logrolling champion and Hayward native won’t be here to defend his title this weekend at the 47th annual LWC at Lumberjack Bowl.
		He’s currently serving an 18-month tour of duty in Iraq with his military unit, the 34th Infantry based in Rochester, Minn.
	www.haywardwi.com /record/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=222843 (285 words)

	Logrolling & Pork
		The Ginsberg text defines LOGROLLING as "a legislative practice wherein agreements are reached between legislators in voting for or against a bill.
		Unlike bargaining, parties to logrolling have nothing in common but
		A reasonable question concerning this practice now is: How do they "exchange
	www.epcc.edu /sites/faculty/bertd/Pork.html (192 words)

	logrolling - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		To work toward the passage of (legislation) by logrolling.
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	dictionary.reference.com /browse/logrolling (418 words)

	Beatrice.com: No More Online Logrolling In Our Time
		Beatrice.com: No More Online Logrolling In Our Time
		Maud sends word of a Toronto Star update on the Amazon review situation, written by an entertainment reporter.
		Basically, the decision to eradicate all traces of authors' commenting on their books is consistent with a policy of saying or doing just about anything to keep customers from shopping at some other website or, god forbid, an offline bookstore.
	www.beatrice.com /archives/000127.html (806 words)

	Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Gridlock or Logrolling?
		Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Gridlock or Logrolling?
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		Both joe and I have been around here for years.
	www.reason.com /blog/show/116608.html (2708 words)

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