Reform Processes and Policy Change: Veto Players and Decision-Making in Modern Democracies (Hardcover)

Dynamizing Veto Player Theory: How Veto Player Theory Can be Used as a Starting Point for a More Comprehensive Model of the Policy Process.- Do Veto Players Have Veto Power?.- Veto Player Theory Revisited: Low Policy Reform Capacity in Parliamentary Democracies with Strong Government.- Veto Players: How Can We Measure Their Policy Preferences.- Strategic Voting in a Bicameral Setting.- Who is Powerful in the EU Legislative Process? A New Approach.- The Sources of Bipartisan Politics in Parliamentary Democracies.- Legislative Involvement in Parliamentary Systems: Opportunities, Conflict and Institutional Constraints.- Testing the Theories of Law Making in a Parliamentary Democracy: A Roll Call Analysis of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.- Veto Players and Environmental Regulation: Assessing the Impact of Institutional and Positional Factors for Policy Change in 24 Countries.- Conditional Veto Player Effects in Tax Policy.- Guarding Status Quo or Amplifying Change? Veto-Players and Welfare State Reforms.- The Veto Player Approachy in Comparative Politics: Concepts and Explanatory Power.- Annoying, but Pacifying: Veto Players and the Onset of Civil War.- Veto Players, Bargaining and the Empirical Analysis of EU Policy Making: A Quantal Response Approach.- Mutual Veto? How Coalitions Work.- Veto Players, Agenda Control and Cabinet Stability in 17 European Parliaments, 1945-1999