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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Veto Players"”.
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Explaining Multiculturalism's Survival: Electoral Outcomes, Policy Design, and Veto Players
… by policy design and by the actions of critical veto players. More precisely, it argues that multiculturalism is more likely to survive an ideological shift to the right in national level politics when (1) parties of the political right secure enough votes in national level elections to govern …
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Veto Players, Punctuated Equilibria, and Budgetary Dymanics: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, United Kingdom, and Denmark
Punctuated equilibrium and veto player theories are both well-established political science models. Punctuated equilibrium theory is a model of the public policy process which holds that policy changes typically occur in an incremental fashion, but this equilibrium incremental change is subject to …
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Keeping faith: secularisation and its influence on the governance of primary schools in Northern Ireland
… governance. Churches use opportunities to act as veto players to influence school governance. Governing bodies in both school types are powerful, and Church nominees within boards of governors can contest the distribution of power and exercise influence themselves. In exploring governors as veto …
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The politics of peace : the end of interstate rivalries
… these incentives are disrupted when leaders face veto players within their government. Economic urgency motivates leaders to consider new policies, compelling them to focus their attention on revising rather than merely sustaining core elements of their state's grand strategy. Economic necessity …
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Compliance with EU Law: Why Do Some Member States Infringe EU Law More Than Others?
… a high number of institutional and coalitional veto players. These results suggest that member states are in the EU because the EU serves their national interest over collective ones. Finally, these results suggest new hypothesis. Member states that have a high level of public discontent with …
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The effort to cut out-of-pocket medical expenses and the political constraints : examples from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China
… NCMS into a fragmented program with too many veto players; on the other hand, policy feedback effects, under which previous policies continue to influence the trajectory of future policy-making decisions, strengthen particular interest groups and force the reform to make compromises.
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Credible commitment and economic growth in Africa
… institutions of delegation, rule of law, and veto players. The study reports a number of findings, which back-up our hypothesis that observed differentials in economic growth among African countries reflect corresponding differences in qualities of political institutions. For instance, there …
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The sustainability of Saskatchewan municipalities
… leaders, examining the data against the veto players' power theory developed by Dr. George Tsebelis, which employs historical institutionalism for its explanatory power to illustrate the resistance to change. The interview data are analyzed using the NVivo analytical platform, which …
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Bažnyčios įtaka įstatymų priėmimui Lietuvoje: Biomedicininių tyrimų etikos įstatymo ir Pagalbinio apvaisinimo įstatymo projekto atvejų studija /
… is used. The second theoretical approach is veto players theory developed by George Tsebelis. However, Simon Fink developed a more direct theory on Church as a veto player and his approach is also used in thesis. Based on both of these theoretical approaches the main supportive theses are …
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Unpacking Coalitions: Explaining International Commitment in European Governments
… economic voting. Specifically, it introduces the veto players and clarity of government responsibility theories to frame the debate and to demonstrate that both theories remain inadequate in explaining commitment intensity unless two key variables are accounted for: (a) the types of multiparty …