Glossary
- (Voting) Power:
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The ability of authorities to codetermine collective decisions based on institutionally determined voting weights and the voting rules
- Collective decision:
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A binding ruling for the system
- Enforcement process:
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Shifts of voting position under pressure from a more powerful actor or coalition
- Hierarchical/power networks:
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Networks based on institutionally determined rights
- Influence:
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The ability of actors to have their interests reflected in collective decisions, strongly determined by direct or indirect access to authorities and by resources they can mobilize, resources to persuade authorities or to force them to take certain interests into account
- Issue salience:
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How strongly the outcome on an issue affects important goals of an actor
- Issue:
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A one-dimensional scale of possible outcomes on a controversial element in the collective decision
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Stokman, F.N. (2017). Policy Networks: History. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_85-1
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