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Resolving controversy in the European Union : legislative decision-making before and after enlargement
\"How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group of twenty-seven countries? This book answers these questions with analyses of the EU's legislative system that include the roles played by the European Commission, European Parliament and member states' national governments in the Council of Ministers. Robert Thomson examines more than 300 controversial issues in the EU from the past decade and describes many cases of controversial decision-making as well as rigorous comparative analyses. The analyses test competing expectations regarding key aspects of the political system, including the policy demands made by different institutions and member states, the distributions of power among the institutions and member states, and the contents of decision outcomes. These analyses are also highly relevant to the EU's democratic deficit and various reform proposals\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Resolving Controversy in the European Union
How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group of twenty-seven countries? This book answers these questions with analyses of the EU's legislative system that include the roles played by the European Commission, European Parliament and member states' national governments in the Council of Ministers. Robert Thomson examines more than 300 controversial issues in the EU from the past decade and describes many cases of controversial decision-making as well as rigorous comparative analyses. The analyses test competing expectations regarding key aspects of the political system, including the policy demands made by different institutions and member states, the distributions of power among the institutions and member states, and the contents of decision outcomes. These analyses are also highly relevant to the EU's democratic deficit and various reform proposals.
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Party mandates and democracy : making, breaking, and keeping election pledges in twelve countries
\"When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises made by politicians during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes and expectations that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy focuses specifically on the extent to which and conditions under which governments fulfill the promises made by parties during election campaigns - and finds that contrary to conventional wisdom, in most countries most of the time, a majority of pledges--and sometimes a large majority--are fulfilled. The fulfillment of parties' election pledges is an essential part of the democratic process. This book is, however, the first major and genuinely comparative study of the topic across a broad range of countries and elections, including the US, Canada, nine Western European countries, and Bulgaria. In order to facilitate valid cross-national comparison, individual country case studies were tightly coordinated in terms of definitions of pledges and assessment of fulfillment. A number of explanations of variation in pledge fulfillment across countries are explored. The presence of power-sharing arrangements between governing parties is found to be an important factor; the book thus adds to the considerable body of literature on the impact of alternative democratic institutions on a variety of outcomes\"-- Provided by publisher.
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