Executive-Legislative Relations in Parliamentary Systems: Policy-Making and Legislative Processes

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
2 Executive-Legislative Relations and Legislative Process
	2.1 Political Institutions and Procedures
		2.1.1 Institutional Procedures
	2.2 Legislative Studies and Bargaining Models
	2.3 Executive-Legislative Relations
	2.4 Chapter Final Remarks
3 A Formal Model of Executive Law-Making
	3.1 A Formal Model of Executive Law-Making: The Setup
	3.2 Solving Model 1: Paths
	3.3 Solving Model 2: Scenarios
	3.4 Chapter Final Remarks
4 Characterisation of the Portuguese Case
	4.1 A Starting Point: The Constitution of 1976
	4.2 Institutional and Political Bodies
	4.3 Law-Making in Portugal
	4.4 Portugal: An Outlook
	4.5 Chapter Final Remarks
5 The Construction of the Database
	5.1 The Crafting of a Database
	5.2 From Conceptualisation to Measurement
		5.2.1 Dependent, Independent and Control Variables
	5.3 Descriptive Statistics of the Database
	5.4 Chapter Final Remarks
6 Empirical Implications of the Formal Model
	6.1 Testing the Theoretical Predictions of the Model
	6.2 Chapter Final Remarks
7 Conclusions: Executive-Legislative Relations and Policy-Making
Appendix A: Interview Transcription
	A.1 Interview to Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Appendix B: Utility Functions per Actor
	B.1 General Game Tree and Actors\' Utilities
	B.2 Solving Utility Functions per Actor (Backwards Induction Order)
Glossary
References
Index