Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies.

ABSTRACT: One of the most important decisions coalition partners make when forming a government is the division of ministries. Ministerial portfolios provide the party in charge with considerable informational and agenda-setting advantages, which parties can use to shape policies according to their preferences. Oversight mechanisms in parliaments play a central role in mitigating ministerial policy discretion, allowing coalition partners to control each other even though power has been delegated to individual ministers. However, we know relatively little about how such mechanisms influence the agenda-setting and gatekeeping powers of ministers and how much influence minister parties have on policy output relative to the government as a whole in different institutional settings. We fill this gap by a

SUBMITTER: Back H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796161 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature