Michael Koß
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199572755
- eISBN:
- 9780191595103
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572755.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy
This chapter firstly discusses the link between a consensus of the relevant parties and the introduction of state funding to them. Secondly, actor-based institutionalism is identified as the best ...
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This chapter firstly discusses the link between a consensus of the relevant parties and the introduction of state funding to them. Secondly, actor-based institutionalism is identified as the best research heuristic to operationalize parties' ability to reach a consensus. Taking actor-based institutionalism's claim that interaction styles are determined by the institutional context, the actor's strategic goals and the specific context in which a decision is taken as a starting point, veto points, party goals, and the discourses on political corruption are identified as independent variables. Vivien Schmidt's differentiation of ‘coordinative’ and ‘communicative’ discourses, thirdly, leads to the two specific constellations of independent variables which facilitate a consensus of the relevant parties (and thus the introduction and reform of state funding to political parties).Less
This chapter firstly discusses the link between a consensus of the relevant parties and the introduction of state funding to them. Secondly, actor-based institutionalism is identified as the best research heuristic to operationalize parties' ability to reach a consensus. Taking actor-based institutionalism's claim that interaction styles are determined by the institutional context, the actor's strategic goals and the specific context in which a decision is taken as a starting point, veto points, party goals, and the discourses on political corruption are identified as independent variables. Vivien Schmidt's differentiation of ‘coordinative’ and ‘communicative’ discourses, thirdly, leads to the two specific constellations of independent variables which facilitate a consensus of the relevant parties (and thus the introduction and reform of state funding to political parties).
Jacques de Maillard and Andy Smith
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447324218
- eISBN:
- 9781447324225
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447324218.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Since the early 1990s, three issues have progressively become sustained objects of debates within French policy analysis: the causal role of ideas within public action; the relationship between ...
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Since the early 1990s, three issues have progressively become sustained objects of debates within French policy analysis: the causal role of ideas within public action; the relationship between institutions and actors; and how studying public policies reveals both the state and politics. Indeed, this progression mirrors the way specialists based in France have engaged in international debates over the last three decades. If, in the 1990s, this field of study was essentially autonomous from extra-national developments, by contrast the following decade was marked by wholesale importation of approaches initiated elsewhere. Since the end of the 2000s, however, greater cross-fertilization between endogenous and exogenous perspectives has emerged, alongside a greater willingness to participate assertively and cumulatively in international scientific fora.Less
Since the early 1990s, three issues have progressively become sustained objects of debates within French policy analysis: the causal role of ideas within public action; the relationship between institutions and actors; and how studying public policies reveals both the state and politics. Indeed, this progression mirrors the way specialists based in France have engaged in international debates over the last three decades. If, in the 1990s, this field of study was essentially autonomous from extra-national developments, by contrast the following decade was marked by wholesale importation of approaches initiated elsewhere. Since the end of the 2000s, however, greater cross-fertilization between endogenous and exogenous perspectives has emerged, alongside a greater willingness to participate assertively and cumulatively in international scientific fora.
