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Veto Players

How Political Institutions Work

Pocket
Engelsk
Veto Players
Veto Players
  • Forfatter: George Tsebelis
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 344
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780691099897
  • Utgivelsesår: 2002
  • Bidragsyter: Tsebelis, George
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Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an important, new understanding of how governments are structured. The real distinctions between political systems, contends George Tsebelis, are to be found in the extent to which they afford political actors veto power over policy choices. Drawing richly on game theory, he develops a scheme by which governments can thus be classified. He shows why an increase in the number of "veto players," or an increase in their ideological distance from each other, increases policy stability, impeding significant departures from the status quo.


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