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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 December 2011
      28 August 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511896446
      9780521562911
      9780521072960
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511896446
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 230 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 232 Pages
      • Series:
      Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, Political Economy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, European Government, Politics and Policy, Comparative Politics
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    Series:
    Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Political Economy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, European Government, Politics and Policy, Comparative Politics
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    Rationalizing Parliament examines how institutional arrangements in the French Constitution shape the bargaining strategies of political parties. The book investigates the decision by French cities to include in the Constitution legislative procedures aimed to 'rationalize' the policy-making role of parliament and analyses the impact of these procedures on policy outcomes, cabinet stability and political accountability. Drawing on diverse methodological approaches, including formal models, multivariate statistics, historical analysis and qualitative case studies, Professor Huber contributes to general theoretical debates about the endogenous choice of institutions, and about the exogenous impact of institutional arrangements on political decision-making. Through its use of theories developed in the American politics literature, the study reveals important similarities between legislative politics in the United States and in parliamentary systems and shortcomings in conventional interpretations of French institutional arrangements.

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    Review of the hardback:‘The argument is clear and well presented … and well referenced. This short work is a good text for courses on political institutions and comparative politics, as well as French politics.’

    John Gaffney Source: Political Studies

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