Author: United States. Congressional Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative power
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Studies on the Legislative Veto
Author: United States. Congressional Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative power
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The Legislative Veto
Author: John R. BoltonHow Our Laws are Made
Author: John V. SullivanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Legislative Veto After Chadha
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on RulesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Reform Processes and Policy Change
Author: Thomas KönigPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441958096
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
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.
Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure
Author: Paul MasonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781580249744
Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Veto Players
Author: George TsebelisPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400831458
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
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. Policy stability affects a series of other key characteristics of polities, argues the author. For example, it leads to high judicial and bureaucratic independence, as well as high government instability (in parliamentary systems). The propositions derived from the theoretical framework Tsebelis develops in the first part of the book are tested in the second part with various data sets from advanced industrialized countries, as well as analysis of legislation in the European Union. Representing the first consistent and consequential theory of comparative politics, Veto Players will be welcomed by students and scholars as a defining text of the discipline. From the preface to the Italian edition: ? "Tsebelis has produced what is today the most original theory for the understanding of the dynamics of contemporary regimes. . . . This book promises to remain a lasting contribution to political analysis."--Gianfranco Pasquino, Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna
Veto Bargaining
Author: Charles M. CameronPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521625500
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Combining game theory with unprecedented data, this book analyzes how divided party Presidents use threats and vetoes to wrest policy concessions from a hostile congress.
Studies on the Legislative Veto
Author: Library of Congress. Congressional Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative power
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
CRS studies, compiled by Louis Fisher for the Subcom on Rules of the House, examining congressional use of statutory legislative veto authority to disapprove proposed executive actions or regulations. Includes summary (p. 1-15) of major findings regarding constitutionality and implementation of legislative vetoes, and the following case studies:
The Legislative Veto
Author: Barbara CraigPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100030292X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
On June 23, 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court declared a legislative veto unconstitutional in the Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha case, a ruling that seems to invalidate the legislative vetoes in more than two hundred laws. Two weeks later the court reaffirmed the principles of Chadha to invalidate the legislative veto in other acts. These epic cases, which are already being called the most important separation-of-powers rulings since the White House tapes cases, have generated debate over the implications of the loss of the legislative veto and the wisdom of the court's actions. In this book the author argues that the legislative veto fell far short of its promise in actual operation over the regulatory process. Instead of promoting democratic congressional control over the actions of bureaucrats, legislative veto politics more often devolved to the politics of special interest protection, heavily influenced by unelected congressional staff. Moreover, the legislative veto. allowed Congress to sidestep conflicts by issuing vague mandates that left agencies without the necessary congressional support to implement them. Dr. Craig combines a historical perspective on the legislative veto with analyses of original case studies involving some of the most important policy issues of the 1980s--housing, education, energy, and consumer protection. Assessing all the cases available for research, she points to discrepancies between the legislative veto's intended effects and its actual results. In a final chapter she considers the impact of the Chadha case and discusses possible alternatives to the legislative veto for congressional control of regulation.