Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work.(Book Review)

From: West European Politics | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work. By GEORGE TSEBELIS. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, Pp. 320. 36.95 [pounds sterling] (cloth) ISBN 0-6910-9988-X; 12.95 [pounds sterling] (paper) ISBN 0-6910-9989-8.

Veto Players is a remarkable book which combines theoretical rigour with empirical research. The theoretical claims based on a carefully developed analytical framework are supported by extensive empirical research. The book is the result of years of work, and, as Tsebelis indicates in the preface, substantially delayed by university veto players: ...

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