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Explaining and predicting coalition outcomes: Conclusions from studying data on local coalitions
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The characteristics and impact of non-source items in the social sciences - a pilot study of two political science departments in germany
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the publication and citation characteristics of items in the social sciences with special attention to non-source items of all document types, and found that highly cited items in political science are authored by more researchers on average and have lower shares of self-citations than non-highly-cited items.
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Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policymaking
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the legislative procedure on the regulation of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in Germany in 2011 and showed that the legislative behavior of MPs does not only reflect partisan conflict but is also influenced by the preferences of the constituents and MPs' own personal characteristics such as: religious denomination, gender, and parental status.
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Regional Government Formation in Varying Multilevel Contexts: A Comparison of Eight European Countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study regional government formation in eight European countries and find that parties at the regional level are likely to form congruent coalitions, that is, copying the patterns of national government formation, and that they are more likely to do so in specific regional contexts.
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Does European Integration Lead to a `Presidentialization' of Executive Politics? Ministerial Selection in Swedish Postwar Cabinets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address recent claims that executive legislative relations in parliamentary democracies are undergoing important changes owing to either a "presidentialization" or a "Europeanisation" of the system.
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New Empirical Strategies for the Study of Parliamentary Government Formation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a mixed logit with random coefficients that allows them to take account of unobserved heterogeneity in the government formation process and relax the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) assumption.
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Making and breaking governments : cabinets and legislatures in parliamentary democracies
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