Parliaments And Parties

Author : H. Bäck,M. Debus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137484550

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Political Parties, Parliaments and Legislative Speechmaking by H. Bäck,M. Debus Pdf

In analysing speeches made by legislators, this book provides theoretical and empirical answers to questions such as: Why do some Members of Parliament (MPs) take the parliamentary floor and speak more than others, and why do some MPs deviate more than others from the ideological position of their party? The authors evaluate their hypotheses on legislative speechmaking by considering parliamentary debates in seven European democracies: Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Assuming that MPs are concerned with policy-making, career advancement, and re-election, the book discusses various incentives to taking the floor, and elaborates on the role of gender and psychological incentives in speechmaking. The authors test our expectations on a novel dataset that covers information on the number of speeches held by MPs and on the ideological positions MPs adopted when delivering a speech.

Author : Shaun Bowler,David M. Farrell,Richard S. Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015043782955

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Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government by Shaun Bowler,David M. Farrell,Richard S. Katz Pdf

Brings together empirical studies of the internal cohesiveness of political party groups in European parliaments and the leadership behavior that leads to disciplined parties in parliament, in sections on theories and definitions, the "Westminster Model," established continental European systems, newly emerging systems, and parliamentary discipline and coalition governments. Chapters originated as papers presented at a spring 1995 workshop held in Bordeaux, France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michel Bédard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political parties
ISBN : OCLC:1097873790

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Political Parties and Parliamentary Recognition by Michel Bédard Pdf

Author : Christopher J. Kam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521518291

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Party Discipline and Parliamentary Politics by Christopher J. Kam Pdf

This text examines the interaction and contention between party leaders and MPs to study the underlying structure of party unity.

Author : Jean-François Godbout
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487524753

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Lost on Division by Jean-François Godbout Pdf

Bridging Canadian party politics and legislative studies, Lost on Division is the most authoritative study available on the development of parliamentary institutions in Canada.

Author : Miki Caul Kittilson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814210154

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Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments by Miki Caul Kittilson Pdf

Author : Lanny W. Martin,Georg Vanberg
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191619465

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Parliaments and Coalitions by Lanny W. Martin,Georg Vanberg Pdf

Coalition governments are the norm in most of the world's parliamentary democracies. Because these governments are comprised of multiple political parties, they are subject to tensions that are largely absent under single-party government. The pressures of electoral competition and the necessity of delegating substantial authority to ministers affiliated with specific parties threaten the compromise agreements that are at the heart of coalition governance. The central argument of this book is that strong legislative institutions play a critical role in allowing parties to deal with these tensions and to enforce coalition bargains. Based on an analysis of roughly 1,300 government bills across five democracies (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands), the book paints a detailed picture of the treatment of government legislation in contemporary parliaments. Two central contributions emerge. First, the book forces a reconsideration of the common perception that legislatures are largely irrelevant institutions in European democracies. The data presented here make a compelling case that parliaments that feature strong committee systems play an influential role in shaping policy. Second, the book contributes to the field of coalition governance. While scholars have developed detailed accounts of the birth and death of coalitions, much less is known about the manner in which coalitions govern between these bookend events. Parliaments and Coalitions contributes to a richer understanding of how multiparty governments make policy. Comparative Politics is a series for students, teachers, and researchers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr

Author : Sven-Oliver Proksch,Jonathan B. Slapin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107072763

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The Politics of Parliamentary Debate by Sven-Oliver Proksch,Jonathan B. Slapin Pdf

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

Author : Roger Morgan,Clare Tame
Publisher : Springer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349243877

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Parliaments and Parties by Roger Morgan,Clare Tame Pdf

This book analyses the European Parliament's relations with the national parliaments of the European Union, in terms of political party interactions, institutional arrangements, and two-way influence. Each of the twelve chapters on the member-states of the EU covers three main themes: the links between party-political activity at the European and national levels; the degree of cooperation between the national and the European parliaments; and the extent to which the national legislature is influenced by the EP's resolutions or other communications.

Author : Jean-Benoit Pilet,William Cross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317929451

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The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies by Jean-Benoit Pilet,William Cross Pdf

This book explores the ways in which political parties, in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and then subsequently hold them accountable. The authors provide a comprehensive examination of party leadership selection and accountability both through examination of parties and countries in different institutional settings and through a holistic analysis of the role of party leaders and the methods through which they assume, and exit, the office. The collection includes essays on Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Norway and the United Kingdom which have important differences in their party systems, their degree of democratization, the role assigned to party leaders and their methods of leadership selection. Each country examination provides significant data relating to party rules and norms of leadership selection, leadership tenures and leadership contests. The book concludes with a chapter that merges the country data analyses to provide a truly comparative examination of the theoretical questions underlying the volume. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of legislative studies, elections, democracy, political parties, party systems, political elites and comparative politics.

Author : Lieven De Winter,Rune Karlsen,Hermann Schmitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000208184

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Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties by Lieven De Winter,Rune Karlsen,Hermann Schmitt Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy. Based on the unique database of the ‘Comparative Candidate Survey' project which interrogated parliamentary candidates in more than 30 countries, it fills a significant lacuna by focusing on the thousands of ordinary candidates that participate in national elections. It examines who the candidates are in terms of their socio-demographic background and political career patterns, how they were selected by their parties, what their policy preference are and whether these are congruent to those held by their voters, who they seek to represent and how they intend to do so once elected, and what their visions are on representative democracy and party government. Last but not least, it investigates how they go about reaching out to their potential voters during the election campaign. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party politics, political elites, political communication, political participation, elections, theories of democracy and representation, legislative studies, voting behaviour and more broadly to European politics, as well as to political and policy professionals throughout Europe.

Author : Mattia Zulianello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429749193

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Anti-System Parties by Mattia Zulianello Pdf

This book adopts an innovative conceptualization and analytical framework to the study of anti-system parties, and represents the first monograph ever published on the topic. It features empirical research using original data and combining large-N QCA analyses with a wide range of in-depth case studies from 18 Western European countries. The book adopts a party-centric approach to the study of anti-system formations by focusing on the major turning points faced by such actors after their initial success: long-term electoral sustainability, the different modalities of integration at the systemic level and the electoral impact of transition to government. The author examines in particular the interplay between crucial elements of the internal supply-side of anti-system parties such as their organizational and ideological features, and the political opportunity structure. Anti-System Parties is a major contribution to the literature on populism, anti-establishment parties and comparative political parties.

Author : Kelly Blidook
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780774821568

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Constituency Influence in Parliament by Kelly Blidook Pdf

Canada's parliamentary system has been characterized as "executive-dominant," with governance focused on the "centre," and scholars have paid little attention to the legislature and its members. But members of Parliament are, in fact, primary actors in governance. Constituency Influence in Parliament illuminates how MPs, in their pursuit of various goals in the legislature, play an important representative role in shaping policy. This critical volume offers the first full-scale examination of the rules and conduct of parliamentary Private Members' Business and of the electoral and policy motivations of those who hold the country's highest elected office. Kelly Blidook offers a thought-provoking assessment of the representational and policy dynamics that exist within the Canadian institutional structure. His examination of what MPs do, why they do it, and what effect it has, serves to resurrect the relevance of Canada's Parliament.

Author : Torbjörn Bergman,Kaare Strøm
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472117475

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The Madisonian Turn by Torbjörn Bergman,Kaare Strøm Pdf

Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have traditionally been strongholds of parliamentary democracy. In recent years, however, critics have suggested that new challenges such as weakened popular attachment, the advent of cartel parties, the judicialization of politics, and European integration have threatened the institutions of parliamentary democracy in the Nordic region. This volume examines these claims and their implications. The authors find that the Nordic states have moved away from their previous resemblance to a Westminster model toward a form of parliamentary democracy with more separation-of-powers features—a Madisonian model. These features are evident both in vertical power relations (e.g., relations with the European Union) and horizontal ones (e.g., increasingly independent courts and central banks). Yet these developments are far from uniform and demonstrate that there may be different responses to the political challenges faced by contemporary Western democracies.

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons,Robert Marleau,Camille Montpetit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCBK:C070750942

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House of Commons Procedure and Practice by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons,Robert Marleau,Camille Montpetit Pdf

This reference book is primarily a procedural work which examines the many forms, customs, and practices which have been developed and established for the House of Commons since Confederation in 1867. It provides a distinctive Canadian perspective in describing procedure in the House up to the end of the first session of the 36th Parliament in Sept. 1999. The material is presented with full commentary on the historical circumstances which have shaped the current approach to parliamentary business. Key Speaker's rulings and statements are also documented and the considerable body of practice, interpretation, and precedents unique to the Canadian House of Commons is amply illustrated. Chapters of the book cover the following: parliamentary institutions; parliaments and ministries; privileges and immunities; the House and its Members; parliamentary procedure; the physical & administrative setting; the Speaker & other presiding officers; the parliamentary cycle; sittings of the House; the daily program; oral & written questions; the process of debate; rules of order & decorum; the curtailment of debate; special debates; the legislative process; delegated legislation; financial procedures; committees of the whole House; committees; private Members' business; public petitions; private bills practice; and the parliamentary record. Includes index.