Assessing policy stability in Iraq: A fuzzy approach to modeling preferences

Peter Colum Casey; Mark J. Wierman; Michael B. Gibilisco; John N. Mordeson; Terry D. Clark

doi:10.1007/s11127-010-9751-1

Assessing policy stability in Iraq: A fuzzy approach to modeling preferences

Peter Colum Casey, Mark J. Wierman, Michael B. Gibilisco, John N. Mordeson, Terry D. Clark

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The first Council of Representatives elected under the new Iraqi Constitution was unable to pass legislation required to achieve the political benchmarks set by the government. We argue that the exercise of a qualified veto by the three-member Presidency Council essentially required near unanimity among the nine parties of the governing coalition. Given the policy positions of these parties, unanimity was not possible. Our analysis makes use of a fuzzy veto players model. The placement of the government parties along a single dimension based on fuzzy preference measures derived from party text data reveals no common area of agreement.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	409-423
Number of pages	15
Journal	Public Choice
Volume	151
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-010-9751-1
State	Published - Jun 2012

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Sociology and Political Science
Economics and Econometrics

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