The Politics of Parliamentary Debate
Parties, Rebels and Representation
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- Authors:
- Sven-Oliver Proksch, McGill University, Montréal
- Jonathan B. Slapin, University of Houston
- Date Published: November 2015
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107421073
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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 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.
Read more- Provides readers with a theoretical framework, absent in the literature to date, to explain an important aspect of parliamentary behaviour - debate
- Covers a wide theoretical scope as the theory captures the effects of a range of political systems and electoral rules on debates
- Based on various quantitative and qualitative investigations of four parliaments including the UK, Germany, New Zealand and the European Union
Awards
- Winner of the 2016 Richard F. Fenno Prize, Legislative Studies Section, American Political Science Association
Reviews & endorsements
'Political scientists have always taken parliamentary voting seriously. In this highly original book, Proksch and Slapin ask us to give equal consideration to parliamentary speech, and reward us with a host of new insights about the deep connection between electoral dynamics and intra-party politics.' Christopher Kam, University of British Columbia
See more reviews'This innovative book shows the importance of parliamentary debates for understanding intra-party politics. A must-read for those who are interested in party competition and legislative behaviour.' Daniela Giannetti, University of Bologna
'The Politics of Parliamentary Debate puts at center stage a major element of parliamentary activities, namely floor deliberation. Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan Slapin cogently argue that speeches hardly affect policy-making proper, but that they play an important role in interactions between members of parliament on the one hand and parties, interest groups and voters on the other. Drawing on an innovative theoretical framework, a host of empirical data and novel techniques, the authors convincingly show the important, though often neglected, role parliamentary debate plays. Thus, for both parliamentary scholars and, more broadly, researchers interested in comparative politics, this book offers an innovative new take on parliaments.' Simon Hug, Université de Genève
'This is a fascinating book. The authors formulate a simple and plausible theory about what is at stake in parliamentary debates, for parties and individual legislators. The empirical evidence is based on an amazing set of comparisons: across countries, across parties, over time, across types of MPs, across time for the same individual legislators. This is social research at its very best.' André Blais, University of Montreal
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- Date Published: November 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107421073
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- contains: 25 b/w illus. 35 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Modeling Parliamentary Debate:
1. A theory of parliamentary debate
2. Empirical implications
3. Research design
Part II. Empirical Studies of Parliamentary Debate:
4. Debates and institutions
5. Debate participation: Germany and the UK
6. Dissent in parliament and the media: Germany and the UK
7. Candidate selection and debate participation: a European perspective
8. New Zealand: changing institutions
Conclusion.
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