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The role of governments in legislative agenda setting / / edited by Bjorn Erik Rasch and George Tsebelis |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-87045-8 |
0-203-83742-8 |
1-136-87046-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; ; 71 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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RaschBjorn Erik <1953-> |
TsebelisGeorge |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political planning - Europe |
Representative government and representation - Europe |
Legislation - Europe |
Comparative government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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