An edition of Veto Players (2002)

Veto Players

How Political Institutions Work

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An edition of Veto Players (2002)

Veto Players

How Political Institutions Work

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"Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an important, new understanding of how governments are structured.

The real distinctions between political systems, contends George Tsebelis, are to be found in the extent to which they afford political actors veto power over policy choices. Drawing richly on game theory, he develops a scheme by which governments can thus be classified. He shows why an increase in the number of "veto players," or an increase in their ideological distance from each other, increases policy stability, impeding significant departures from the status quo.".

"Policy stability affects a series of other key characteristics of politics, argues the author. For example, it leads to high judicial and bureaucratic independence, as well as high government instability (in parliamentary systems). The propositions derived from the theoretical framework Tsebelis develops in the first part of the book are tested in the second part with various data sets from advanced industrialized countries, as well as analysis of legislation in the European Union.

Representing the first consistent and consequential theory of comparative politics, Veto Players will be welcomed by students and scholars as a defining text of the discipline."--BOOK JACKET.

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320

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Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work
2011, Princeton University Press
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Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work
2011, Princeton University Press
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Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work
September 3, 2002, Princeton University Press
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Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work
October 1, 2002, Princeton University Press
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First Sentence

"IN THIS CHAPTER I define the fundamental concepts I use in this book, in particular veto players and policy stability."

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Library of Congress
JF51.T745 2002, JF51 .T745 2002

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
320
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Weight
1 pounds

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Open Library
OL7758463M
ISBN 10
0691099898
ISBN 13
9780691099897
LCCN
2002074909
OCLC/WorldCat
49959431
Library Thing
523372
Goodreads
215710

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