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the role of governments in legislative agenda setting
p setting the agenda for parliament is the most significant institutional weapon for governments to shape policy outcomes because governments with significant agenda setting powers like france or the uk are able to produce the outcomes they prefer while governments that lack agenda setting powers such as the netherlands and italy in the beginning of the period examined see their projects significantly altered by their parliaments . p with a strong comparative framework this coherent volume examines fourteen countries and provides a detailed investigation into the mechanisms by which governments in different countries determine the agendas of their corresponding parliaments . it explores the three different ways that governments can shape legislative outcomes institutional partisan and positional to make an important contribution to legislative politics . p it will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics legislative studies parliamentary research governments coalition politics political economy and policy studies .
other routledge 2009 isbn13 9780415481014 isbn10 0415481015
abridged n isbn 13 9780415481014 number in series 1 number of pages 282 publisher taylor & francis release date 62135769600000 series title routledge ecpr studies in european political science