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Informationen zum Autor Christopher J. Kam is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver! Canada. He has received major research grants from the US National Science Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and his work on political parties and parliamentary government has appeared in the British Journal of Political Science! Legislative Studies Quarterly! and Governance. Klappentext Examines the interaction and contention between party leaders and MPs to study the underlying structure of party unity. Zusammenfassung The decline of partisanship among voters has strengthened incentives for MPs to act independently of their parties and made it harder for party leaders to maintain discipline within their parties. This book studies the underlying structure of party unity and examines the interaction and contention between party leaders and MPs. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. A model of intra-party politics; 3. Patterns of backbench dissent in four Westminster parliamentary systems, 1945-2005; 4. Policy preferences and backbench dissent in Great Britain and Canada; 5. Dissent, constituency service, and the personal vote in Great Britain and New Zealand; 6. The cost of dissent to the party; 7. Demotion and dissent in the Canadian Liberal Party, 1991-7; 8. Discipline and dissent in the Australian Coalition, 1996-8; 9. Career trajectories, socialization, and backbench dissent in the British House of Commons; 10. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Comparative statics and proofs; Appendix 2. Content and construction of ideological scales; Appendix 3. Sampling and coding of media dissent and discipline; Appendix 4. Demotion and the parliamentary careers of Canadian MPs; References; Index.
