scholarly journals Coalition Agreements, Issue Attention, and Cabinet Governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 1995-2031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Klüver ◽  
Hanna Bäck
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
East European ◽  
Important Policy ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
Shed Light

Why do coalition parties settle some policy issues in great detail, whereas other issues are hardly mentioned in coalition agreements? Coalition agreements are important policy platforms that determine policy making during the legislative term. However, we know remarkably little about their content. We shed light on why issue attention in coalition agreements varies so extensively. We argue that intra-cabinet conflict positively affects issue attention as parties have stronger incentives to negotiate a detailed policy agenda that constrains their coalition partners. However, we expect that this effect is conditioned by preference tangentiality and the salience of an issue among coalition partners. Our theoretical expectations are tested drawing on a new data set based on a comprehensive content analysis of 224 agreements negotiated by 181 parties between 1945 and 2015 in 24 West and East European countries. We find support for our hypotheses and conclude that parties draft agreements to limit “ministerial drift.”

Green-SÖP: The Socio-ecological Panel Survey: 2012–2016

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Klick ◽  
Gerhard Kussel ◽  
Stephan Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Personal Attitudes ◽  
Research And Policy

Abstract Evaluating environmental questions is a crucial issue in today’s economic research and policy making. The Green-SÖP offers a comprehensive data base to enrich an empirically led scientific discourse as a survey data set on environmental and energy-related topics in Germany. The data set on more than 6000 households was collected by RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and partners between 2012 and 2016. The questions are very diverse and range from personal attitudes to environmental policy issues with a special focus on the consequences of climate change and individual behaviors as well as opinions on ecologically related matters.

scholarly journals Framing by the Flock: Collective Issue Definition and Advocacy Success

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiebke Marie Junk ◽  
Anne Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Issue Definition ◽  
Opposing Camp

The framing of issues is part of the tool kit used by lobbyists in modern policy making, yet the ways in which framing works to affect lobbying success across issues remain underexplored. Analyzing a new dataset of lobbying in the news on 50 policy issues in five European countries, we demonstrate that it is not individual but collective framing that matters: Emphasis frames that enjoy collective backing from lobbying camps of like-minded advocates affect an advocate’s success, rather than frames being voiced by individual advocates. Crucially, it matters for advocacy success whether the advocate’s camp frames its policy goals on an issue in unity with “one voice” and whether the actor’s camp wins the contest of framing the issue vis-à-vis the opposing camp. Our results emphasize the need to consider the collective mechanisms behind the power of framing and have implications for future research on framing as an advocacy tool.

scholarly journals The land use structure of agricultural holdings in the Central and East European Countries and its evolution  

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Strojny Jacek ◽  
Piecuch Jakub
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Elimination Method ◽  
East European ◽  
Land Use Structure ◽  
Entire Data ◽  
Research Outcome ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Eu

The taxonomy of agricultural holdings’ land use structure of the CEEC countries that are the EU members aims to investigate the diversity of this phenomenon and its evolution in 2005–2010. In order to establish homogenous clusters of land use, a structural taxonomy technique called the vectors elimination method was employed. The research outcome was the split of the entire data set into 5 subgroups characterizing more homogenous land use structures. Migrations of countries between the taxonomic subgroups over time were determined by the character of the transformation of the land use structure.

Comparing the Roles of Regulatory Oversight Bodies in Central and Eastern European Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 723-742
Author(s):  
Katarína STAROŇOVÁ
Keyword(s):  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
East European ◽  
Regulatory Impact ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractCurrently, there is ongoing discussion about the role of regulatory oversight bodies in relation to the implementation of regulatory impact assessments (RIAs). In fact, one can witness a diffusion of regulatory oversight systems, including in CEE countries, where introduction of an RIA oversight body became part of the modernisation of the overall RIA process to become more effective. In fact, the regulatory oversight mechanism is seen as a tool for the instrumental role of regulation governance. However, this approach does not adequately explain the rationale behind setting up such a body; strategic and symbolic roles may be significant as well. This article first compares the manner in which oversight mechanisms have been institutionalised in five Central and East European countries: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. Second, it explores how differences in institutionalisation and operation shed light on understanding what stakeholders expect and understand in relation to control of RIA quality. The paper concludes that there are marked differences in regulatory oversight set-up and roles across Central and Eastern Europe, notably as a consequence of the presence or absence of internal learning.

scholarly journals Economists as Public Policy Advisers

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee H Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Joint Economic Committee ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Important Policy ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Active Interest ◽  
Important Quality

As a member of the Joint Economic Committee for over 15 years I have had ample occasion to observe economists testifying. When I was Chairman of the Committee in the last Congress, for example, we held over 100 hearings and heard from at least that many different economists. From this experience, I have developed some views about how economists can be effective witnesses and, more generally, how they can make a useful contribution to economic policy. For me, the most important quality for economists to have when they are testifying or advising policymakers is the ability to express their ideas on important policy issues clearly and simply, without jargon. There is an art to telling policymakers what they need to know but don't want to hear. An economist who wants to contribute to the policy-making process needs to be a good salesman—but not a snake-oil salesman. I encourage more economists to take an active interest in public policy and to contribute to the debate on the economic issues.

scholarly journals When do political parties prioritize labour? Issue attention between party competition and interest group power

2019 ◽  
pp. 135406881987560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Otjes ◽  
Christoffer Green-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Election Manifestos ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
Project Data

This article analyses the conditions under which political parties spend attention to labour issues. This article compares the dominant partisan perspective, which proposes that attention to issues is shaped by party competition, to an interest group perspective, which proposes that strong interest groups, in particular when their power is institutionalized in corporatist systems, can force parties to spend attention to their issue. We use the Comparative Agenda Project data set of election manifestos to examine these patterns in seven West-European countries and corroborate our findings in the Comparative Manifesto Project data set for 25 countries. The evidence supports the interest group perspective over the partisan perspective. This shows that the study of party attention to issues should not isolate party competition from the influence of other political actors.

UK Television Policy and Regulation, 2000–10

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Communications Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Broadcasting Regulation ◽  
Structural Regulation

Between 2000 and 2010, new institutional arrangements were created for UK broadcasting regulation, built upon a radical rethinking of communications policy. This article examines key changes arising from Labour's media policy, the Communications Act 2003 and the work of Ofcom. It argues that changes within broadcasting were less radical than the accompanying rhetoric, and that contradictory tendencies set limits to dominant trends of marketisation and liberalisation. The article explores these tendencies by reviewing the key broadcasting policy issues of the decade including policies on the BBC, commercial public service and commercial broadcasting, spectrum and digital switchover, and new digital services. It assesses changes in the structural regulation of media ownership, the shift towards behavioural competition regulation, and the regulation of media content and commercial communications. In doing so, it explores policy rationales and arguments, and examines tensions and contradictions in the promotion of marketisation, the discourses of market failure, political interventions, and the professionalisation of policy-making.

The Cold War and After

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Trachtenberg
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International System ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Nuclear Strategy ◽  
Book Deal ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
Shed Light

What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? This book explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this book deal with specific problems—with such matters as nuclear strategy and U.S.–European relations. But the book's main goal is to show how in practice a certain type of scholarly work can be done. The book demonstrates how, in studying international politics, the conceptual and empirical sides of the analysis can be made to connect with each other, and how historical, theoretical, and even policy issues can be tied together in an intellectually respectable way. These essays address a wide variety of topics, from theoretical and policy issues, such as the question of preventive war and the problem of international order, to more historical subjects—for example, American policy on Eastern Europe in 1945 and Franco-American relations during the Nixon–Pompidou period. But in each case, the aim is to show how a theoretical perspective can be brought to bear on the analysis of historical issues, and how historical analysis can shed light on basic conceptual problems.

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