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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.

Political parties --- France, Parlement (1946-) --- France --- Politics and government --- 329 <44> --- -France --- -#A9712A --- Parties, Political --- Party systems, Political --- Political party systems --- Political science --- Divided government --- Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) --- Political conventions --- Politieke partijen. Partijwezen. Partijrecht--Frankrijk --- -France. Parlement (1946- ) --- 329 <44> Politieke partijen. Partijwezen. Partijrecht--Frankrijk --- #A9712A --- France. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Political parties - Belgium --- France. - Parlement (1946- ) --- France - Politics and government - 1958 --- -Political parties

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The laws that legislatures adopt provide the most important and definitive opportunity elected politicians have to define public policy. But the ways politicians use laws to shape policy varies considerably across polities. In some cases, legislatures adopt detailed and specific laws in efforts to micromanage policy-making processes. In others, they adopt general and vague laws that leave the executive and bureaucrats substantial autonomy to fill in the policy details. What explains these differences across political systems, and how do they matter? The authors address this issue by developing and testing a comparative theory of how laws shape bureaucratic autonomy. Drawing on a range of evidence from advanced parliamentary democracies and the American states, they argue that particular institutional forms have a systematic and predictable effect on how politicians use laws to shape the policy making process.

Separation of powers --- Political planning --- Bureaucracy --- Law --- Comparative government --- Political aspects --- Law and politics --- #SBIB:35H006 --- #SBIB:324H20 --- #SBIB:033.IO --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Interorganizational relations --- Public administration --- Organizational sociology --- Planning in politics --- Public policy --- Planning --- Policy sciences --- Politics, Practical --- Checks and balances (Separation of powers) --- Division of powers --- Powers, Separation of --- Constitutional law --- Delegation of powers --- Executive power --- Judicial independence --- Judicial power --- Judicial review --- Legislative power --- Bestuurswetenschappen: theorieën --- Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) --- Law and legislation --- #A0506SO --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Law - Political aspects --- Separation of powers. --- Political planning. --- Bureaucracy. --- Comparative government. --- Political aspects.