Veto Players - How Political Institutions Work Tsebelis GeorgePaperback
Veto Players - How Political Institutions Work Tsebelis GeorgePaperback Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and…
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Veto Players - How Political Institutions Work Tsebelis GeorgePaperback
Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. 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? But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights.
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. Veto Players advances an important, new understanding of how governments are structured. 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,