Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work

by George Tsebelis

Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an important, new understanding of how governments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691099898
• ISBN13: 9780691099897
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"