Government Selection and Executive Powers: Constitutional Design in Parliamentary Democracies

Hire or Fire? The Link between Cabinet Investiture and Removal in Parliamentary Democracies

“…In recent work, Cheibub et al (2015) explore the origin of investiture procedures, demonstrating that the investiture provisions established by constitution makers are systematically related to the constitutional powers granted to the executive. Constitutions that endowed executives with strong legislative agenda powers also endowed parliaments with strong mechanisms to select the executive.…”

Committee Assignments: Theories, Causes and Consequences

“…The suggestion is that party groups and national parties in the European Parliament attempt to limit the agency losses that might result from a high degree of self-selection in committee assignments. (Cheibub, Martin and Rasch, 2015). An analysis of committee assignments from the Danish parliament suggest that an approach inspired by the portfolio allocation model works best in explaining the distribution of seats and chairs between parties.…”

Norms in Bargaining: Evidence from Government Formation in Spain

“…The countries in the sample vary both in the role such appointed executive has in government (e.g., importance of the British versus French prime ministers) and also the specific rules for government formation: "different legislatures play different formal roles, and thus have different levels of influence, in the government formation process " (Cheibub, Martin, and Rasch 2015).…”