Catherine Moury

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the fulfillment of 18,743 pledges made in 54 election campaigns in 12 countries and find high levels of pledge fulfillment for most parties that entered the government executive, and substantially lower levels for parties that do not.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a coalition agreement is a tool used by coalition parties to reduce agency loss when delegating to ministers, and they show that a majority of the pledges were transferred into cabinet decisions, and that one-third of cabinet decisions had been precisely defined beforehand in the document.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the margin of manoeuvre of Portuguese executives after the onset of the sovereign debt crisis in 2010-2015 and found that the perceived need for "credibility" in order to avoid a negative reaction from the markets concurrently gave the executives a legitimate justification to concentrate power in their hands and a strong argument to counter the opponents of their proposed reforms.

TL;DR: The impressive development of the European Parliament's powers over Commission appointment and investiture may be explained by looking at interstitial institutional change and its subsequent formalisation as mentioned in this paper, since it is less sensitive to failure and has a longer time horizon.

TL;DR: In this paper, a suite d'elections legislatives, a coalition de centre-droit commenca a mettre en œuvre, a la demande semble-t-il de la dite troika, une serie de mesures d'austerite et de reformes sociales severes provoquant une importante recession ainsi qu’une agitation sociale.