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The politics of parliamentary debate : parties, rebels and representation

Proksch, Sven-Oliver, 1978- author, Slapin, Jonathan B., 1979- author

Overview

This book explains how parties and their members of parliament (MPs) structure parliamentary debate. Parties may actively seek to prevent some members from taking the floor while promoting opportunities for others. In doing so, they attempt to control the message that their partisans convey in parliament. The authors provide a theoretical model to explain the design of procedural rules in parliament, how the party leadership interacts with rebel backbenchers, and how MPs represent voters. The book explores political institutions, intra-party politics, electoral politics and legislative behavior. It develops and tests a new theory of parliamentary debate, using data from the UK, Germany, New Zealand and the European Parliament.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Parliamentary practice. / Debates and debating. / Parliamentary practice / Parlamentsdebatte.
• ISBN: 110707276X, 9781107072763

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JF515.P94 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE