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Legislative debates make democracy and representation work.
Political actors engage in legislative debates to make their voice
heard to voters. Parties use debates to shore up their brand. This
book makes the most comprehensive study of legislative debates thus
far, looking at the politics of legislative debates in 33 liberal
democracies in Europe, North America and Latin America, Africa,
Asia, and Oceania. The book begins with theoretical chapters
focused on the key concepts in the study of legislative debates.
Michael Laver, Slapin and Proksch, and Taylor examine the politics
of legislative debates in parliamentary and presidential
democracies. Subsequently, Goplerud makes a critical review of the
methodological challenges in the study of legislative debates.
Schwalbach and Rauh further discuss the difficulties in the
comparative empirical study of debates. Country-chapters offer a
wealth of original material organized around structured sections.
Each chapter begins with a details discussion of the institutional
design, focusing on the electoral system, legislative organization,
and party parties, to which a section on the formal and informal
rules of legislative debates ensues. Next, each country chapter
focuses on analyzing the determinants of floor access, with a
particular emphasis on the role of gender, seniority, legislative
party positions, among others. In the concluding chapter, the
editors explore comparative patterns and point out to multiple
research avenues opened by this edited volume. The Oxford Politics
of Institutions series is designed to provide in-depth coverage of
research on a specific political institution. Each volume includes
a mix of theoretical contributions, state-of-the-art research
review chapters, comparative empirical chapters, country case study
chapters, and chapters aimed at practitioners. Typically, the
majority of chapters in each volume comprises of country studies
written by country experts. Volumes in the series are aimed at
political scientists, students in political science programmes,
social scientists more generally, and policy practitioners. Series
editors: Shane Martin, Anthony King Chair in Comparative Government
and Head of the Department of Government, University of Essex; and
Sona N. Golder, Professor of Politics, Department of Political
Science, Pennsylvania State University.
George Tsebelis' veto players approach has become a prominent
theory to analyze various research questions in political science.
Studies that apply veto player theory deal with the impact of
institutions and partisan preferences of legislative activity and
policy outcomes. It is used to measure the degree of policy change
and, thus, reform capacity in national and international political
systems. This volume contains the analysis of leading scholars in
the field on these topics and more recent developments regarding
theoretical and empirical progress in the area of political
reform-making. The contributions come from research areas of
political science where veto player theory plays a significant
role, including, positive political theory, legislative behavior
and legislative decision-making in national and supra-national
political systems, policy making and government formation. The
contributors to this book add to the current scholarly and public
debate on the role of veto players, making it of interest to
scholars in political science and policy studies as well as
policymakers worldwide.
Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorien gelten als erfolgversprechende
Ansatze zur Erklarung sozialen und politischen Handelns. Handeln
wird dabei als das Ergebnis eines Prozesses gesehen, bei dem
Akteure aus verschiedenen verfugbaren Handlungsalternativen
diejenige auswahlen, die bei gegebenen Rahmenbedingungen und
erwarteten Handlungen anderer Akteure ihre Ziele am besten zu
verwirklichen verspricht. Band 12 des Jahrbuchs vereint innovative
Beitrage zur Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, die sich mit der
gesamten Breite des Feldes befassen.
Unterscheidet sich die nordrhein-westfalische CDU eines Jurgen
Ruttgers programmatisch von der hessischen Union unter Fuhrung von
Roland Koch? Steht die SPD im Saarland weiter links von der Mitte
als die Sozialdemokraten im benachbarten Rheinland-Pfalz? Wenn ja,
warum ist das der Fall? Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die
bundeslandsspezifischen Eigenheiten des Parteienwettbewerbs anhand
einer Analyse aller zwischen 1990 und 2010 verfassten
Landtagswahlprogramme. Dies geschieht vor dem Hintergrund der
historischen Entwicklung der Parteiensysteme in den Landern
einerseits und auf Grundlage theoretischer Modelle andererseits.
Die Ergebnisse zeichnen ein differenziertes Bild des
Parteienwettbewerbs im deutschen Mehrebenensystem. Sie zeigen die
Unterschiede in den programmatischen Positionen der Parteien in den
verschiedenen Politikfeldern auf, die ihre Ursachen in der
Sozialstruktur der jeweiligen Wahlerschaft, aber auch in taktischen
Bestrebungen der Parteien bei Landtagswahlen haben. Die
Eigenstandigkeit des regionalen Parteienwettbewerbs im Vergleich
zum bundespolitischen zeigt sich schliesslich in der Bedeutung der
inhaltlichen Ausrichtungen der Landesparteien fur die
Regierungsbildung in den Bundeslandern.
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