Representing the People

A Survey Among Members of Statewide and Substate Parliaments
Herausgeber: Deschouwer, Kris; Depauw, Sam

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780199684533
• ISBN-10: 0199684537
• Artikelnr.: 40444429

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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