The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting.

The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting.

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,...

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Main Author: Rasch, Bjorn Erik
Other Authors: Tsebelis, George
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science.
Subjects:
Political planning > Europe.
Representative government and representation > Europe.
Legislation > Europe.
Comparative government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Comparative government
Legislation
Political planning
Representative government and representation
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Governments and legislative agenda setting: an introduction; 2 Germany: limited government agenda control and strong minority rights; 3 France: systematic institutional advantage of government in lawmaking; 4 Italy: government alternation and legislative agenda setting; 5 United Kingdom: extreme institutional dominance by the executive ... most of the time; 6 Hungary: changing government advantages
  • challenging a dominant executive.
  • 7 The Netherlands: legislative agenda setting and the politics of strategic lock-in8 Switzerland: agenda setting power of the government in a separation-of-powers framework; 9 Greece: government as the dominant player; 10 Spain: majoritarian choices, disciplined party government and compliant legislature; 11 Portugal: limited government and the influential role of parliament; 12 Russia: the executive in a leading role; 13 Denmark: agenda control and veto rights to opposition parties; 14 Norway: institutionally weak governments and parliamentary voting on bills.
  • 15 Japan: decades of partisan advantages impeding cabinet's agenda setting power16 Conclusion; Index.

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