The Uneasy Relationships Between Parliamentary Members and Leaders

ISBN-13: 9780714681108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 344 str.

Lawrence D. Longley; Reuven Y. Hazan

Opis

Parliamentary members and parliamentary leaders recurrently find themselves in uneasy - and even testy - relationships. The interests of parliamentary leaders in programme adoption often are at tension with the concerns of members of parliament with individual advancement in parliament and party, with interest articulation and with constituency concerns. This cross-national work analyzes these difficult and often testy relations and tensions between parliamentary members and leaders through studies ranging from Germany to the United States, and from New Zealand to global perspectives. The bases of such uneasy member-leadership relations, their manifestation and sometimes resolution, and the consequences of member-leadership tension to effective parliamentary performance and policy-making is considered in each examination.

Spis treści

On the uneasy, delicate, yet necessary relationships between parliamentary members and leaders, Lawrence D. Longley, Reuven Y. Hazan; what can an individual MP do in German parliamentary politics? Werner J. Patzelt; the individual member in the British House of Commons - facing both ways and marching forward, Philip Norton; from committee government to party government - changing opportunities for amendment sponsors in the US House of Representatives, 1945-98, John E. Owens; the individual parliamentary member and institutional change - the changing role of the New Zealand member of parliament, Fiona Barker, Stephen Levine; parliamentary members and leaders as agents of reform - parliamentary and regime change revisited, Lawrence D. Longley, Taylor M. Hoffman; the Office of Speaker in comparative perspective, Stanley Bach; the keys to togetherness -coalition agreements in parliamentary democracies, Kaare Strom, Wolfgang C. Muller; dilemmas and opportunities of legislative leadership in a non-parliamentary system - the US case, Barbara Sinclair; yes, institutions matter - the impact of institutional reform on parliamentary members and leaders in Israel, Reuven Y. Hazan.

O autorze

Reuven Y. Hazan, Lawrence D. Longley