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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 governments in different countries determine
the agendas of their corresponding parliaments. It explores the
three different ways that governments can shape legislative
outcomes: institutional, partisan and positional, to make an
important contribution to legislative politics. It will be of
interest to students and scholars of comparative politics,
legislative studies/parliamentary research, governments/coalition
politics, political economy, and policy studies.
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 governments in different countries determine
the agendas of their corresponding parliaments. It explores the
three different ways that governments can shape legislative
outcomes: institutional, partisan and positional, to make an
important contribution to legislative politics. It will be of
interest to students and scholars of comparative politics,
legislative studies/parliamentary research, governments/coalition
politics, political economy, and policy studies.
Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the
comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form
only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus
came from the study of the American and French constituent
assemblies in the late eighteenth century, this volume exemplifies
the large comparative scope of current research. The contributors
discuss constituent assemblies in South East Asia, North Africa and
the Middle East, Latin America, and in Nordic countries. Among the
new insights they provide is a better understanding of how
constituent assemblies may fail, either by not producing a document
at all or by adopting a constitution that fails to serve as a
neutral framework for ordinary politics. In a theoretical
afterword, Jon Elster, an inspirational thinker on the current
topic, offers an analysis of the micro-foundations of
constitution-making, with special emphasis on the role of
crises-generated passions.
Comparative constitutional law has a long pedigree, but the
comparative study of constitution-making has emerged and taken form
only in the last quarter-century. While much of the initial impetus
came from the study of the American and French constituent
assemblies in the late eighteenth century, this volume exemplifies
the large comparative scope of current research. The contributors
discuss constituent assemblies in South East Asia, North Africa and
the Middle East, Latin America, and in Nordic countries. Among the
new insights they provide is a better understanding of how
constituent assemblies may fail, either by not producing a document
at all or by adopting a constitution that fails to serve as a
neutral framework for ordinary politics. In a theoretical
afterword, Jon Elster, an inspirational thinker on the current
topic, offers an analysis of the micro-foundations of
constitution-making, with special emphasis on the role of
crises-generated passions.
Parliaments and Government Formation explores the role of national
legislatures in shaping government formation in parliamentary
regimes. Under parliamentarism, the government comes from, and
remains responsible to, the national parliament. Yet, although
legislatures and the politics of government formation are two of
the most studied phenomenon in comparative politics, relatively
little attention has focused on the degree to which parliamentary
rules and procedures impact government formation. For instance,
exactly what does 'come from parliament' mean in the context of
government formation? To answer this question, the volume seeks to
'unpack' the parliamentary investiture vote. Investiture consists
of a vote in parliament to demonstrate that an already formed or
about to be formed government has legislative support. The volume
analyses investiture along six dimensions: (1) the number of
chambers involved in government formation, (2) the exact topic of
any investiture vote - for example whether the votes focuses on one
or more of the prime ministership, the cabinet and/or the
government's policy program, (3) the sequencing and timing of the
vote in the overall game of government formation, (4) the decision
rule - for example absolute majority, simple or some form of
negative parliamentarism, (5) the number of rounds provided for,
and (6) what happens in the event of a failure to invest a
government. Each of the 16 case studies, written by leading
scholars of legislative politics in their respective polities,
seeks to describe the institutional rules and practices and analyse
their origins and consequences. These case studies are supplemented
with two comparative chapters.
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