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If one looks back on the contributions of institutional analysis to political science, two findings come to one’s mind: Duverger’s (1954; French original 1951) laws on the impact of electoral systems and the importance of agenda setting (paternity of this idea is difficult to attribute, but it probably belongs to McKelvey 1976). Döring’s major contributions revolve around this concept of agenda setting. I will first present them and locate them inside the literature, then I will show their relevance in assessing important theoretical questions in the literature, and then demonstrate how they can be expanded to cover countries that were not covered in the initial studies.
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Tsebelis, G. (2009). Agenda Setting and Executive Dominance in Politics. In: Ganghof, S., Hönnige, C., Stecker, C. (eds) Parlamente, Agendasetzung und Vetospieler. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91773-3_2
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