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Democratic politics in the European Parliament /
With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures, languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the Parliament to be highly-fragmented and unpredictable. By studying more than 12,000 recorded votes between 1979 and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Themes in European governance.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures, languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the Parliament to be highly-fragmented and unpredictable. By studying more than 12,000 recorded votes between 1979 and 2004 this 2007 book establishes that the opposite is in fact true: transnational parties in the European Parliament are highly cohesive and the classic 'left-right' dimension dominates voting behaviour. Furthermore, the cohesion of parties in the European Parliament has increased as the powers of the Parliament have increased. The authors suggest that the main reason for these developments is that like-minded MEPs have incentives to form stable transnational party organizations and to use these organizations to compete over European Union policies. They suggest that this is a positive development for the future of democratic accountability in the European Union. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511279232 051127923X 0511278632 9780511278631 9786610850464 6610850461 1107172187 9781107172180 1280850469 9781280850462 0511491956 9780511491955 0511321627 9780511321627 |