Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government

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Pub. Date: 1999-01-01
Publisher(s): Ohio State Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Forewordp. vii
Prefacep. ix
Theories and Definitions
Party Cohesion, Party Discipline, and Parliamentsp. 3
How Political Parties Emerged from the Primeval Slime: Party Cohesion, Party Discipline, and the Formation of Governmentsp. 23
The "Westminster Model"
Discipline in the British Conservative Party: The Attitudes of Party Activists toward the Role of Their Members of Parliamentp. 53
Backbenchers with Attitude: A Seismic Study of the Conservative Party and Dissent on Europep. 72
Established Continental European Systems
Cohesion of Party Groups and Interparty Conflict in the Swiss Parliament: Roll Call Voting in the National Councilp. 99
Electoral Systems, Parliamentary Committees, and Party Discipline: The Norwegian Storting in a Comparative Perspectivep. 121
Parliamentary Party Discipline in Spainp. 141
Newly Emerging Systems
The Parliamentarization of the East Central European Parties: Party Discipline in the Hungarian Parliament, 1990-1996p. 167
The Challenge of Diversity: Party Cohesion in the European Parliamentp. 189
Parties and Party Discipline within the European Parliament: A Norms-Based Approachp. 208
Parliamentary Discipline and Coalition Governments
The Costs of Coalition: A Five-Nation Comparisonp. 227
Coalition Discipline, Enforcement Mechanisms, and Intraparty Politicsp. 269
Contributorsp. 289
Indexp. 291
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