“…In accordance with the above mentioned scientific literature this approach is "intuitive, testable, and transparent" (Hallerberg 2011: 39) and has already proved itself to be valuable at conducting the empirical studies, devoted to explanation of political stability and instability causes (Hallerberg 2011;Ganghof 2015). The veto player approach has been applied at studying the electoral reform policy in Ukraine (Herron 2004), in the United Kingdom (Blau 2008), in Slovenia, in the Czech Republic, in Romania (Nikolenyi 2011) and in Belgium (Hooghe, Deschouwer 2011). This model was also used for the analysis of the party reform in Russia in 2001 (Herron 2004) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs reform under the President Dmitriy Medvedev within the period from 2009 to 2011 (Taylor 2014).…”