British Journal of Political Science
SCOPUS (1971-2023)SSCI-ISI
0007-1234
1469-2112
Anh Quốc
Cơ quản chủ quản: Cambridge University Press , CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Lĩnh vực:
Sociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International Relations
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Decision Making in Political Systems: Veto Players in Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, Multicameralism and MultipartyismThe article compares different political systems with respect to one property: their capacity to produce policy change. I define the basic concept of the article, the ‘veto player’: veto players are individual or collective actors whose agreement (by majority rule for collective actors) is required for a change of the status quo. Two categories of veto players are identified in the article... ...
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Legislative Procedures in the European CommunityThis article presents spatial models of three legislative procedures in the EC: the consultation, co-operation and assent procedures. The theory characterizes for each procedure the set of policies that can be adopted and the equilibrium EC policy as a function of the ideal policies of the countries, the Commission and the Parliament, and the location of the status quo. It yields comparati... ...
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Juking the Stats? Authoritarian Information Problems in ChinaEconomic statistics inform citizens of general conditions, while central leaders use them to evaluate local officials. Are economic data systematically manipulated? After establishing discrepancies in economic data series cross-nationally, this article examines Chinese sub-national growth data. It leverages variation in the likelihood of manipulation over two dimensions, arguing that polit... ...
Tập 46 Số 1 - Trang 11-29 - 2016
Determinants of Legislative Turnover: A Cross-National AnalysisTwo decades of turnover data were collected for the national legislature of twenty-five industrialized countries. After a discussion of turnover's significance, we compare turnover rates across countries. A set of variables expected to influence turnover rates is described and multiple regression is used to test the hypotheses developed. Results show that frequency of elections, opportunit... ...
Tập 34 Số 1 - Trang 87-108 - 2004
Dynamics of Representation: The Case of US Spending on DefenceThe representation of public preferences in public policy is fundamental to most conceptions of democracy. If representation is effectively undertaken, we would expect to find a correspondence between public preferences for policy and policy itself. If representation is dynamic, policy makers should respond to changes in preferences over time. The integrity of the representational connecti... ...
Tập 26 Số 1 - Trang 81-103 - 1996
Review Article: Dismantling the Health Care State? Political Institutions, Public Policies and the Comparative Politics of Health ReformThis article examines the recent pattern and progress of health care reform in affluent democracies, focusing in particular on Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. Its main contention is that efforts to reform health care in advanced industrial states have been marked by a paradoxical pattern of ‘reform without change and change without reform’, in which large-s... ...
Tập 34 Số 4 - Trang 693-724 - 2004
Electoral Choice and the Production of Government: The Changing Operation of the Electoral System in the United Kingdom since 1955The debate about electoral reform in Britain has taken a new turn with the latest upsurge in mid-term support for the Liberals, the launch of the SDP, and the immediate electoral success of the Alliance between the two parties. We do not deal here with the durability or consequences of these developments. We are concerned with the electoral system that they put under challenge. This concer... ...
Tập 12 Số 3 - Trang 249-298 - 1982
Reasoning About Institutional Change: Winners, Losers and Support for Electoral ReformsThis study assesses how the mass public reasons about political institutions by examining the effects of winning and losing on support for several electoral reform proposals. The national sample survey identified majorities supporting proposals for major changes in America's electoral institutions, and that suggested electoral losses may have a modest effect in reducing losers' satisfactio... ...
Tập 37 Số 3 - Trang 455-476 - 2007
Political Leadership in the Media: Gender Bias in Leader Stereotypes during Campaign and Routine TimesThis article studies gender differences in media portrayals of political leadership, starting with the expectation that male politicians are evaluated more often on traits belonging to the male leader stereotype, and that female politicians have no such advantage. These gender differences are expected to be especially pronounced during non-campaign periods. To test these expectations, a la... ...
Tập 50 Số 3 - Trang 911-931 - 2020
Three Worlds of Social Insurance: On the Validity of Esping-Andersen's Welfare Regime DimensionsEsping-Andersen developed a typology of welfare regimes: conservative, liberal and social democratic, which are measured on the basis of seven indicators. We re-examine Esping-Andersen's data as well as replication data compiled by Scruggs and Allan to show that the seven indicators do not form valid measures of these welfare regimes. In addition to divergences in their measurement, the se... ...
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