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Parliamentary debate is a fundamental aspect of democratic law-making. While law makers everywhere seek to express their views in parliament, there are large discrepancies in who has access to the floor across political systems. This book explains ho
This study examines the effect of voters’ ideological extremism on turnout in European national and European Parliament elections. Using data from recent European Election Studies, the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, and other national elec
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Legislators will sometimes vote against their party’s position on roll-call votes to differentiate themselves from the party mainstream and to accrue a “personal vote.” Research suggests that the use of rebellion to generate a personal vote is
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https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-210211
https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-210211
Autor:
Jonathan B. Slapin, Justin H. Kirkland
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 45:153-176
Using data on the content of debate associated with votes in the UK House of Commons from 1992–2015, this article examines how government party MPs employ language in legislative speech when they vote against the party line. We find a robust statis
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https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12251
https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12251
This chapter analyses how citizens in Europe vote across elections. Elections are an integral part of democracy as they allow citizens to shape collective decision-making. The chapter addresses the issue of trying to explain why people vote in the fi
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0005
https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0005
This chapter looks at competition between parties. First, the chapter outlines the ways in which party systems are described and categorized, in terms of the number of parties (in other words, fragmentation) and their ideological position (polarizati
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0009
https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0009
This chapter examines the importance of law and the rule of law by looking at real-life situations through the lens of theoretical models that consider why people obey the law and how judges interpret the law. The chapter considers when and why citiz
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0013
https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0013
The Introduction argues that to understand European politics there are two premises that need to be accepted. Firstly, the interplay between European and national-level politics must be taken seriously. The two cannot be studied independently. Second
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0001
This chapter addresses the various concepts of political representation, such as substantive, descriptive, and symbolic. It then examines which institutions foster different types of representation. It presents two different visions of democracy: pro
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0007
https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0007
This chapter starts off with an overview of the institutions that decide how citizens cast ballots, firstly, in elections, and secondly, directly for policy. The former is related to electoral systems and the latter to direct democracy. The chapter c
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198831303.003.0006