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The Acceptance of Party Unity in Parliamentary Democracies
David M. Willumsen
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Description for The Acceptance of Party Unity in Parliamentary Democracies
Hardback. This book seeks to explain how political parties in parliamentary countries manage to be almost perfectly united when it comes to voting in parliament. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPH; JPL. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Despite the central role of policy preferences in the subsequent behaviour of legislators, preferences at the level of the individual legislator have been almost entirely neglected in the study of parliaments and legislative behaviour. The main reason for this is the difficulty of obtaining measures of legislator preferences that are not based on their behaviour. This book explores direct measures of policy preferences through parliamentary surveys. Building on this, the book develops measures of policy incentives of legislators to dissent from their parliamentary parties, and demonstrates that preference similarity amongst legislators explains a very substantial proportion of party unity, ... Read more
Despite the central role of policy preferences in the subsequent behaviour of legislators, preferences at the level of the individual legislator have been almost entirely neglected in the study of parliaments and legislative behaviour. The main reason for this is the difficulty of obtaining measures of legislator preferences that are not based on their behaviour. This book explores direct measures of policy preferences through parliamentary surveys. Building on this, the book develops measures of policy incentives of legislators to dissent from their parliamentary parties, and demonstrates that preference similarity amongst legislators explains a very substantial proportion of party unity, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198805434
SKU
V9780198805434
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99-15
About David M. Willumsen
David M. Willumsen is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Innsbruck. In 2013 he received his PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute, Florence, on the topic of party unity in European legislatures, having spent four months as an exchange student at ETH Zurich in 2011. From July 2013 to September 2016, he worked as a post-doctoral ... Read more
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