Cohesion and Discipline in Legislatures

Herausgeber: Hazan, Reuven Y

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780415511506
• ISBN-10: 041551150X
• Artikelnr.: 42195113

Autorenporträt

Reuven Y. Hazan

Inhaltsangabe

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