caa a22 4500 388078731 CHVBK 20180307125206.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585576 doi S0003055400218200 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585576 Tsebelis George University of California at Los Angeles Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis [Elektronische Daten] [George Tsebelis] This article investigates hypotheses generated by the veto players' theory. The fundamental insight of this theory is that an increase in the number of veto players (for all practical purposes, in parliamentary systems the number of parties in government) and their ideological distance from one another will reduce the ability of both government and parliament to produce significant laws. In addition, the number of significant laws increases with the duration of a government and with an increase in the ideological difference between current and previous government. These propositions are tested with legislative data (both laws and government decrees) on working time and working conditions identified in two legislative sources: the NATLEX computerized database in Geneva (produced by the International Labour organization) and Blanpain's International Encyclopedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations. The data cover fifteen West European countries for the period 1981-91. The evidence corroborates the proposed hypotheses. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 591-608 0003-0554 93:3<591 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585576 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585576 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tsebelis George University of California at Los Angeles NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 591-608 0003-0554 93:3<591 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge