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Veto Points and the Environment

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Staatstätigkeiten, Parteien und Demokratie

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In this chapter on veto points and environmental policy, we engage with three areas of research to which Manfred G. Schmidt has made seminal contributions: the German political system, the historical development of the welfare state, and his engagement with democratic theory. A leitmotif of Schmidt’s work is both the role of political parties in fostering policy change and the institutional factors that cause policy blockages.

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Immergut, E., Orlowski, M. (2013). Veto Points and the Environment. In: Armingeon, K. (eds) Staatstätigkeiten, Parteien und Demokratie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-01853-5_14

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