caa a22 4500 386310084 CHVBK 20180307111542.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0896082800000350 doi S0896082800000350 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0896082800000350 Resurgent Governors in the Federal System [Elektronische Daten] The time is July 1988, and baseball fever is rising. With barely a glimmer of hope remaining, "Big Jim” Thompson steps into the batter's box to swat a ninth inning "home run” that prevents the White Sox from going down to defeat—or more accurately—from going down to Florida. Such is the stuff of legends, although the real story is hardly less dramatic. Seated at a desk at home plate of Comiskey Park, Illinois Governor James Thompson signed a $ 150 million financing package for the construction of a new stadium that will keep the White Sox in Chicago and fore-close the team's removal to St. Petersburg. With vigorous lobbying from the Governor, the Illinois General Assembly, in the closing minutes of its 1988 session, had narrowly approved the stadium legislation. The news from Chicago, however, is more than a baseball story. The news tells us a great deal about modern governors in domestic policy making. They are more activist than their counterparts a generation or so ago, particularly in the realm of homestate economic development. Though most governors do not serve as long as Thompson-by late 1988, he had been governor for nearly 12 years-modern governors, as compared to their 1950s counterparts, are staying in office longer and, perhaps as a consequence, acquiring greater national influence. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1988 O'Rourke Timothy G. University of Virginia Vallier Rickey University of Virginia Political Science Teacher Cambridge University Press 1/4(1988), 5-7 0896-0828 1:4<5 1988 1 PST https://doi.org/10.1017/S0896082800000350 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0896082800000350 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'Rourke Timothy G. University of Virginia NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vallier Rickey University of Virginia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Political Science Teacher Cambridge University Press 1/4(1988), 5-7 0896-0828 1:4<5 1988 1 PST CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge