{"id":102,"date":"2011-10-31T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T10:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rulesofreason.wordpress.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2011-10-31T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T10:38:53","slug":"veto-players-and-policy-making-uk-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Veto players and policy making (UK style)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The concept of ‘veto players’ (developed initially by George Tsebelis<\/a>) plays a prominent role<\/a> in research on policy making, legislative production,\u00a0policy implementation, etc. All these analyses need to be revised, however,\u00a0because the measure of the number of British veto players\u00a0has been revealed to be\u00a0wrong. Everyone forgot to include\u00a0….. Prince Charles. Here is the story from the Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Prince Charles has been offered a veto over 12 government bills since 2005. Ministers sought prince’s consent under secretive constitutional loophole on bills covering issues from gambling to the Olympics…Ministers have been forced to seek permission from Prince Charles to pass at least a dozen government bills, according to a Guardian investigation into a secretive constitutional loophole that gives him the right to veto legislation that might impact his private interests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0Plus one (veto player)<\/em> for the UK. Minus one for democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The concept of ‘veto players’ (developed initially by George Tsebelis) plays a prominent role in research on policy making, legislative production,\u00a0policy implementation, etc. All these analyses need to be revised, however,\u00a0because the measure of the number of British veto players\u00a0has been revealed to be\u00a0wrong. Everyone forgot to include\u00a0….. Prince Charles. Here is the story from the Guardian: Prince Charles has been offered a veto over 12 government bills since 2005. Ministers sought prince’s consent under secretive constitutional loophole on bills covering issues from gambling to the Olympics…Ministers have been forced to seek permission from Prince Charles to pass at least a dozen government bills, according to a Guardian investigation into a secretive constitutional loophole that gives him the right to veto legislation that might impact his private interests. \u00a0Plus one (veto player) for the UK. Minus one for democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[105,487,520,521,663,678],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-1E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=52","url_meta":{"origin":102,"position":0},"title":"Governing by Polls","date":"October 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The study of policy responsiveness to public opinion is blossoming and propagating. 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