TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eppner, Sebastian
A1  - Ganghof, Steffen
T1  - Institutional veto players and cabinet formation
BT  - the veto control hypothesis reconsidered
JF  - European journal of political research : official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research
N2  - Are potential cabinets more likely to form when they control institutional veto players such as symmetric second chambers or minority vetoes? Existing evidence for a causal effect of veto control has been weak. This article presents evidence for this effect on the basis of conditional and mixed logit analyses of government formations in 21 parliamentary and semi-presidential democracies between 1955 and 2012. It also shows that the size of the effect varies systematically across political-institutional contexts. The estimated causal effect was greater in countries that eventually abolished the relevant veto institutions. It is suggested that the incidence of constitutional reform is a proxy for context-specific factors that increased the incentives for veto control and simultaneously provided a stimulus for the weakening of institutional veto power.
KW  - government formation
KW  - veto players
KW  - second chambers
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12172
SN  - 0304-4130
SN  - 1475-6765
VL  - 56
IS  - 1
SP  - 169
EP  - 186
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -