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Do parliamentary procedures affect political outcomes? In many European countries, such as in Greece or the United Kingdom, it would seem that parliament now plays the role of a mere “rubber stamp” that approves the executive’s proposals. This would suggest that details about how parliament makes laws are essentially irrelevant. Addressing this question, the two Döring edited volumes (Döring 1995a; Döring/Hallerberg 2004) broadly combined rational choice theory with empirical data. They found both considerable variation in institutional settings and behaviour across parliaments. These volumes together suggest that parliamentary procedures indeed have important consequences for the laws that countries do, and do not, enact.1
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Yläoutinen, S., Hallerberg, M. (2009). The Role of Parliamentary Committees in the Budgetary Process in the Central and Eastern European Countries. 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_10
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