Ebook: Party Discipline and Parliametary Government

Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government brings together empiri­
cal studies of the internal cohesiveness of political party groups in Euro­
pean parliaments, along with the leadership behavior that conduces to
disciplined parties in parliament. The purview of these studies includes
parliamentary party behavior in Great Britain, Ireland, Switzerland,
Norway, Spain, Hungary, and the European Parliament, with less exten­
sive inclusion of parliamentary behavior in a number of other countries.
The original papers upon which these chapters are based were first ex­
posed to the public view in a workshop, "Party Discipline and the Or­
ganization of Parliaments," that Shaun Bowler and David Farrell
organized for the European Consortium for Political Research meetings
in Bordeaux, France, in 1995.