Agenda Control and Timing of Bill Initiation
A Temporal Perspective on Coalition Governance in Parliamentary Democracies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7622320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas König (0000-0002-1797-6662, University of Mannheim), Nick C N Lin (0000-0001-7227-1000, Academia Sinica), Xiao Lu (0000-0003-1175-4687, University of Mannheim), Talita Neves Silva (0000-0003-4913-2090, University of Mannheim), Nikoleta Yordanova (0000-0002-9207-4597, Leiden University), Galina Zudenkova (0000-0002-0008-2427, TU Dortmund University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 231-248 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055421000897 |
| OpenAlex | W3196513943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 83 |
Although democratic governance imposes temporal constraints, the timing of government policy making activities such as bill initiation is still poorly understood. This holds especially under coalition governments, in which government bills need to find approval by a partner party in parliament. We propose a dynamic temporal perspective in which ministers do not know whether they face a cooperative or competitive partner at the beginning of a term, but they learn this over time and use their agenda control to time further bill initiation in response. A circular regression analysis using data on more than 25,000 government bills from 11 parliamentary democracies over 30 years supports this temporal perspective, showing that ministers initiate bills later in the term when their previous bills have experienced greater scrutiny. Ministers further delay bill initiation when coalition parties’ incentives to deviate from compromise increase and when they have less power to constrain their bills’ scrutiny
Coalition government · Compromise · Control (management · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Government (linguistics · Incentive · Market economy · Parliament · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scrutiny · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Finance · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |