Cohesion and Discipline in Legislatures

Informationen zum Autor Reuven Y. Hazan Klappentext This book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - asks why legislative unity is one of the distinguishing features of modern political parties. Zusammenfassung This book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - asks why legislative unity is one of the distinguishing features of modern political parties. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Explaining Party Cohesion in Democratic Legislatures: Purposiveness and contexts 2. Legislative Cohesion and Presidential Policy Success 3. Cohesion without Discipline: Party voting in the house of lords 4. Committee Cohesion and the 'Corporate Dimension' of Parliamentary Committees: A comparative analysis 5. The Development of Parliamentary Discipline in New Parliaments: Eastern German state legislature 1990-2000 6. Party Cohesion and Party Discipline in German Parliaments 7. High Discipline, Low Cohesion?: The uncertain patters of Canadian parliamentary party groups 8. Government Party Discipline in Parliamentary Democracies: The cases of Belgium, France and the United Kingdom in the 1990s 9. Party Discipline and Government Imposition of Restrictive Rules 10. Party Cohesion and Discipline Revisited: Contingent unity in the parliamentary party group

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• Authors: Reuven Y. Hazan
• Assisted by: Reuven Y Hazan (Editor), Reuven Y. Hazan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2005
• EAN: 9780415360142
• ISBN: 978-0-415-36014-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Library of Legislative Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions, Political parties and party platforms