One of the biggest challenges parties in multiparty governments face is making policies
together and overcoming the risk of a policy stalemate. Scholars have devoted much …

One of the most important decisions coalition partners make when forming a government is
the division of ministries. Ministerial portfolios provide the party in charge with considerable …

Veto player theory generates predictions about governments' capacity for policy change.
Due to the difficulty of identifying significant laws needed to change the policy status quo …

How does the risk of gridlock affect the type of legislative output? Do bureaucratic agents
expand their activities when they can expect that the principals are unable to overrule them …

This exploratory research note theorises about and tests the factors that have affected
legislative productivity in France from 1960 to 2007. The empirical model accounts for intra …

Page 1 International Political Economy Series Sovereign Risk and Financial Crisis The
International Political Economy of the Eurozone Silvia Pepino Page 2 International Political …

Foreign Policy decision-making on a political level is a difficult and intricate task that
requires coordination, cooperation and agreement between multiple actors involved in the …

Can ministers in parliamentary democracies influence reform policy? This paper
investigates the role of ministerial prerogatives for policy output, and asks under which …

This thesis uses a counterfactual simulation to estimate the impact that applying the double
majority rule would have had on legislative productivity in the Province of Canada, 1840 …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 International Political Economy Series General Editor: Timothy M.
Shaw, Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies, and Director of …