[PDF] The Impact Of Experts On Legislative Decision Making eBook

Author : Thomas König
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1441958096

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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.

Author : S. Gordon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137522402

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This book provides a nuanced picture of how governmental advocates develop their lobbying strategies. Through in-depth analysis of context specific data from surveys of and interviews with California lobbyists, the author explores how context, targets, and tactics interact as lobbyists try to influence legislative decision making.

Author : John M. Carey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139476793

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Legislatures are the core representative institutions in modern democracies. Citizens want legislatures to be decisive, and they want accountability, but they are frequently disillusioned with the representation legislators deliver. Political parties can provide decisiveness in legislatures, and they may provide collective accountability, but citizens and political reformers frequently demand another type of accountability from legislators – at the individual level. Can legislatures provide both kinds of accountability? This book considers what collective and individual accountability require and provides the most extensive cross-national analysis of legislative voting undertaken to date. It illustrates the balance between individualistic and collective representation in democracies, and how party unity in legislative voting shapes that balance. In addition to quantitative analysis of voting patterns, the book draws on extensive field and archival research to provide an extensive assessment of legislative transparency throughout the Americas.

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Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2004-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3736911726

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This book presents an attempt to empirically test the explanatory power of procedural models which were designed for European Union legislative decision-making. After outlining the research questions and presenting different existing models which have been put forward to enhance our understanding of how the EU works and how legislation is being negotiated by the political actors within this organization, I first introduced the European policy process by comparing it to the legislative process in the United States. I then compared the different procedural models in terms of the assumptions which they make regarding the sequence of play, actors’ decision weight, and the dimensionality of the policy space. Computer simulation techniques were employed to evaluate the effect changes of different model parameters, such as the number of players, the decision rule, and the dimensionality of decision making. The objective of this chapter was to assess how stable the models are against changes that affect parameters other than agenda-setting and amendment power.

Author : Craig Volden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521761522

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This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 1995-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309051320

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Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. Society's Choices discusses ways for people to handle today's bioethics issues in the context of America's unique history and cultureâ€"and from the perspectives of various interest groups. The book explores how Americans have grappled with specific aspects of bioethics through commission deliberations, programs by organizations, and other mechanisms and identifies criteria for evaluating the outcomes of these efforts. The committee offers recommendations on the role of government and professional societies, the function of commissions and institutional review boards, and bioethics in health professional education and research. The volume includes a series of 12 superb background papers on public moral discourse, mechanisms for handling social and ethical dilemmas, and other specific areas of controversy by well-known experts Ronald Bayer, Martin Benjamin, Dan W. Brock, Baruch A. Brody, H. Alta Charo, Lawrence Gostin, Bradford H. Gray, Kathi E. Hanna, Elizabeth Heitman, Thomas Nagel, Steven Shapin, and Charles M. Swezey.