The role of governments in legislative agenda setting / edited by Bjorn Erik Rasch and George Tsebelis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rasch, Bjørn Erik, 1953-

Tsebelis, George.

Series:

Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning--Europe.

Political planning.

Representative government and representation--Europe.

Representative government and representation.

Legislation--Europe.

Legislation.

Comparative government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Setting the agenda for parliament is the most significant institutional weapon for governments to shape policy outcomes, because governments with significant agenda setting powers, like France or the UK, are able to produce the outcomes they prefer, while governments that lack agenda setting powers, such as the Netherlands and Italy in the beginning of the period examined, see their projects significantly altered by their Parliaments.With a strong comparative framework, this coherent volume examines fourteen countries and provides a detailed investigation into the mechanisms by which governmen

Contents:

1. Governments and legislative agenda setting : an introduction / George Tsebelis and Bjorn Erik Rasch

2. Germany : limited government agenda control and strong minority rights / Christoph Honnige and Ulrich Sieberer

3. France : systematic institutional advantage of government in lawmaking / Sylvain Brouard

4. Italy : government alternation and legislative agenda setting / Francesco Zucchini

5. United Kingdom : extreme institutional dominance by the executive. most of the time / Mads H. Qvortrup

6. Hungary : changing government advantages : challenging a dominant executive / Gabriella Ilonszki and Krisztina Jager

7. The Netherlands : legislative agenda setting and the politics of strategic lock-in / Arco Timmermans

8. Switzerland : agenda setting power of the government in a separation-of-powers framework / Daniel Schwarz, Andre Bachtiger, and Georg Lutz

9. Greece : government as the dominant player / Aris Alexopoulos

10. Spain : majoritarian choices, disciplined party government and compliant legislature / Natalia Ajenjo and Ignacio Molina

11. Portugal : limited government and the influential role of parliament / Eugenia Da Conceicao-Heldt

12. Russia : the executive in a leading role / Iulia Shevchenko and Grigorii V. Golosov

13. Denmark : agenda control and veto rights to opposition parties / Robert Klemmensen

14. Norway : institutionally weak governments and parliamentary voting on bills /Bjorn Erik Rasch

15. Japan : decades of partisan advantages impeding cabinet's agenda setting power / Silke Koster-Riemann

16. Conclusion /Bjorn Erik Rasch and George Tsebelis.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-87045-8

0-203-83742-8

1-136-87046-6

9780203837429

OCLC:

852758727