Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries, Yale 1999

Vergleichende Policy-Forschung: Herausforderungen, Fallstricke und Potenziale für die Zukunft

“…For the influence of political institutions on policymaking, a similar point can be made. In Lijphart's (2012) work, for instance, the comparative study of institutional features that allow systems to integrate minority positions in the decision-making process makes sense only in the context of democracies. Similarly, veto-point approaches that account for the institutional barriers against policy change (Huber et al 1993;Kaiser 1997;Schmidt 2002) have also been designed for democratic systems: They model how constitutional structures of democratic states limit the maneuvering room of governments, which is directly linked to the democratic idea of separation of powers.…”

“…Many of the landmark books on public policy analysis have been comparative in nature. Esping-Andersen's study of welfare state capitalism (Esping-Andersen 1990) compared 18 Western industrialized countries to show how power resources of the left have shaped social policies and welfare state institutions; Arend Lijphart (1984Lijphart ( , 1999Lijphart ( , 2012 has used ever larger samples of countries to argue theoretically and show empirically that consensus democracies produce "kinder and gentler" (Lijphart 2012, p. 274) policies; Klingemann et al (1994) have collected comparative evidence on how party manifestos are translated into policies in 10 Western democracies; and there are many more on the list.…”

Digitalisierung der Schweizer Demokratie

“…Im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts hat sich das schweizerische politische System zu einer typischen Konkordanzdemokratie entwickelt (Lijphart, 2007). Ihr grundsätzliches politisches Entscheidungsprinzip beruht darauf, einerseits möglichst viele Akteurinnen und Akteure in den politischen Prozess mit einzubeziehen und andererseits politische Entscheidungen auf der Basis von Dialog und Konsens zu fällen.…”

Croatian Post-Socialist Transition or Transformation

“…All of the terms have certain values and reflect quite different expectations, which should be equally considered. The differences in cultural traditions are visible between European countries and other regions as well as in relation to the heritage of political culture (Lijphart, 2012). However, values cannot be attributed or prescribed; they cannot be adopted by ordinance or recommendation because people and values had existed and inherited different legal cultures and lifestyles before transitions began.…”

“…It is also well known that economic progress can be achieved through various combinations of institutional frameworks, depending on the values and needs of a particular nation (Stiglitz, 2004;Rodrik, 2011). Preferences in institutional design, legal culture, and volume of regulation or sociological image of society lead to very different choices and various combinations of political governance and market organization and ultimately to their different results (Stephens, 1995;Lijphart, 2012).…”