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Based on interviews with members of over 70 parliamentary assemblies Representing the People explores how members of parliament perceive their role as representatives, and shows that the way in which they represent depends very much on the party to which they belong.
List of contents
- 1: Kris Deschouwer, Sam Depauw, and Audrey André: Representing the People in Parliaments
- 2: Agnieszka Dudzi?ska, Corentin Poyet, Olivier Costa, and Bernhard Weßels: Representational Roles
- 3: Daniele Caramani, Karen Celis, and Bram Wauters: The Representation and Old and New Groups
- 4: Silvia Erzeel, Didier Caluwaerts, and Karen Celis: From Agency to Institutions and Back: Comparing Legislators' Acting on on Behalf of Women in Parliamentary Democracies
- 5: Audrey André, André Freire, and Zsófia Papp: Electoral Rules and Legislators' Personal Vote-Seeking
- 6: Cynthia M.C. van Vonno, Reut Itzkovitch Malka, Sam Depauw, Reuven Y. Hazan, and Rudy B. Andeweg: Agreement, Loyalty and Discipline; A Sequential Approach to Party Unity
- 7: Marcelo Jenny, Wolfgang C. Müller, Jonathan Bradbury, Nikolaus Eder, and Gabriella llonszki: MPs' inter-party Contacts and the Operation of Party Democracy
- 8: Audrey André, Michael Gallagher ,and Giulia Sandri: Legislators' Constituency Orientation
- 9: Tor Midtbø, Stefaan Walgrave, Peter Van Aelst, and Dag Arne Christensen: Do the Media Set the Agenda of Parliament or is it the Other Way Around? Agenda Interactions Between MPs and Mass Media
- 10: Jean-Benoit Pilet, Filippo Tronconi, Pablo Onate, and Luca Verzichelli: Career Patterns in Multilevel Systems
- 11: Kris Deschouwer and Sam Depauw: The Institutional Constraints of Representation
- Appendix
About the author
Kris Deschouwer's research has focussed on political parties, elections, and the governance of divided societies. He is the central co-ordinator of the research programme PartiRep on political participation and representation. One of the projects of this PartiRep programme was the survey among members of parliament on which this book is based. He is Professor of Politics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Sam Depauw's research concentrates on legislative and electoral studies. He has published extensively on political representation and party discipline in West European Politics, the Journal of Legislative Studies, Acta Politica, and Party Politics. He is Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Summary
Based on interviews with members of over 70 parliamentary assemblies Representing the People explores how members of parliament perceive their role as representatives, and shows that the way in which they represent depends very much on the party to which they belong.
