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January 1, 2025
Chronic bargaining failure over government formation in parliamentary systems may result in new elections. Even when we do not actually observe new elections, their possibility in the event of bargaining failure is part of the context of government formati ...
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January 1, 2025
Unlike single-party governments, coalition cabinets are comprised of parties that govern together, but compete separately at election time. This difference implies that multiparty government is a mixed-motive game. On the one hand, coalition partners must ...
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January 1, 2019
Courts with the power of constitutional review have become a central, and often powerful, institution in democratic politics. At the same time, the influence of courts is often seen to be in tension with democratic governance and popular sovereignty-a tens ...
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2018
In recent decades, the American political system has become increasingly polarized. Has this trend affected the U.S. Supreme Court? In this chapter, we approach the question empirically through seven decades’ worth of data on the nomination, confirmation, ...
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January 1, 2015
The majority of the world’s advanced industrial democracies are parliamentary systems, and in most of those, coalition government is the norm. Thus, it is not surprising that understanding how coalition governments come about, and how they operate, has bee ...
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June 19, 2014
The 33 chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by 47 of the most distinguished legislative scholars, provide a comprehensive and up-to-date description and assessment of the state of the art in legislative studies. ...
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October 5, 2012
Offering new ways of understanding the complexity and consequences of these interactions, the volume joins a growing body of work that considers these influential interactions among various branches of the U.S. government. ...
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September 28, 2012
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June 10, 2010
This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the field of law and politics in all its diversity, ranging from such traditional subjects as theories of jurisprudence, constitutionalism, judicial politics and law-and-society to such re ... ...
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