The role of governments in legislative agenda setting
In: Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science 71
1. Governments and legislative agenda setting : an introduction / George Tsebelis and Bjorn Erik Rasch -- 2. Germany : limited government agenda control and strong minority rights / Christoph Honnige and Ulrich Sieberer -- 3. France : systematic institutional advantage of government in lawmaking / Sylvain Brouard -- 4. Italy : government alternation and legislative agenda setting / Francesco Zucchini -- 5. United Kingdom : extreme institutional dominance by the executive. most of the time / Mads H. Qvortrup -- 6. Hungary : changing government advantages : challenging a dominant executive / Gabriella Ilonszki and Krisztina Jager -- 7. The Netherlands : legislative agenda setting and the politics of strategic lock-in / Arco Timmermans -- 8. Switzerland : agenda setting power of the government in a separation-of-powers framework / Daniel Schwarz, Andre Bachtiger, and Georg Lutz -- 9. Greece : government as the dominant player / Aris Alexopoulos -- 10. Spain : majoritarian choices, disciplined party government and compliant legislature / Natalia Ajenjo and Ignacio Molina -- 11. Portugal : limited government and the influential role of parliament / Eugenia Da Conceicao-Heldt -- 12. Russia : the executive in a leading role / Iulia Shevchenko and Grigorii V. Golosov -- 13. Denmark : agenda control and veto rights to opposition parties / Robert Klemmensen -- 14. Norway : institutionally weak governments and parliamentary voting on bills /Bjorn Erik Rasch -- 15. Japan : decades of partisan advantages impeding cabinet's agenda setting power / Silke Koster-Riemann -- 16. Conclusion /Bjorn Erik Rasch and George Tsebelis.