Studierende der Politikwissenschaft müssen einen umfassenden Einblick in Methoden des
Fachs erhalten. Nachdem der Band von Nathalie und Joachim Behnke in der Reihe …

American legislative studies in recent years have been occupied to a large degree with the
question of the effects of political parties on the policy behavior of elected legislators, with …

“Winnowing” is the pre‐floor process by which Congress determines the small percentage of
bills that will receive committee attention. The vast majority of proposals languish in this vital …

9.1 A framework for institutional analysis 118 10.1 Flow diagram of the advocacy coalition
framework 128 11.1 Incremental and punctuated policy change distributions 148 14.1 …

The study of democratization, more than most fields of comparative political inquiry, should
be sensitive to the time factor. When something happens, as well as in what order and with …

States are the key to contemporary government reform efforts in the United States, but we
know very little about their relative effectiveness at resource allocation and their actual …

Using a multiple streams model, which is based on work by Kingdon, the study explains the
quest to sell British Rail. It argues that privatization depends on the interplay of three streams …

Time with its many roles and faces is a major player in the field of politics. But up to now,
neither political science in general nor studies of democracy in particular have taken explicit …

Policy transfer studies have significantly contributed to our understanding of how the
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In what manner is political time institutionalized in the political system of the EU? This article
advances five propositions on political time in the EU and highlights their implications for the …