Agendas in legislative decision‐making

Content and Dynamics of Legislative Agendas in Germany

The conventional wisdom on german politics is that in response to the political volatility of the Weimar Republic, the architects of the post–World War II political system valued stability above all other concerns. As a consequence of this preference, the Basic Law introduces numerous veto points in the political process and counterbalances a strong executive branch, headed by the chancellor a...

Security Decisionmaking in Iran

Advancing Agendas

In the UK, the development of integrated children‟s services over the past six years has led to an increased need for public sector managers to attend strategic, interagency meetings. However, there is little research in this field that can be used to support managers in ensuring positive outcomes from such meetings. The aim of this research was to identify the main concerns of managers attendi...

HCI's Making Agendas

The potential for using stroke gestures to enter, retrieve and select commands and text has been recently unleashed by the popularity of touchscreen devices. This monograph provides a state-of-the-art integrative review of a body of human–computer interaction research on stroke gestures. It begins with an analysis of the design dimensions of stroke gestures as an interaction medium. The analysi...

Agendas with Priority∗

While a wide variety of agendas are used in legislative voting, the literature focuses almost exclusively on Euro-Latin and Anglo-American agendas. These two agendas share three features common to many agendas used in practice: they are non-repetitive in that every vote eliminates some alternatives from consideration; continuous in that alternatives continue to be contested until they are eithe...