The Politics of Parliamentary Debate: Parties, Rebels and Representation

ISBN-13: 9781107072763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str.

Sven-Oliver Proksch; Jonathan B. Slapin

Opis

This work explains how parties and their members of parliament structure parliamentary debate, providing novel insights into intra-party politics and representation.

Recenzje

'This is a fascinating book. The authors formulate a simple and plausible theory about what is at stake in parliamentary debates, for parties and individual legislators. The empirical evidence is based on an amazing set of comparisons: across countries, across parties, over time, across types of MPs, across time for the same individual legislators. This is social research at its very best.' André Blais, University of Montreal

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Modeling Parliamentary Debate: 1. A theory of parliamentary debate; 2. Empirical implications; 3. Research design; Part II. Empirical Studies of Parliamentary Debate: 4. Debates and institutions; 5. Debate participation: Germany and the UK; 6. Dissent in parliament and the media: Germany and the UK; 7. Candidate selection and debate participation: a European perspective; 8. New Zealand: changing institutions; Conclusion.