Representing the People A Survey Among Members of Statewide and Substate Parliaments

by Deschouwer, Kris; Depauw, Sam

• ISBN13: 9780199684533
• ISBN10: 0199684537
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-07-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Kris Deschouwer, Research Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel,Sam Depauw, Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Kris Deschouwer's research has focussed on political parties, elections, and the governance of divided societies. He is the central co-ordinator of the research programme PartiRep on political participation and representation. One of the projects of this PartiRep programme was the survey among members of parliament on which this book is based. He is Professor of Politics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Sam Depauw's research concentrates on legislative and electoral studies. He has published extensively on political representation and party discipline in West European Politics, the Journal of Legislative Studies, Acta Politica, and Party Politics. He is Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Table of Contents

1. Representing the People in Parliaments, Kris Deschouwer, Sam Depauw, and Audrey Andre
2. Representational Roles, Agnieszka Dudzi?ska, Corentin Poyet, Olivier Costa, and Bernhard Wessels
3. The Representation and Old and New Groups, Daniele Caramani, Karen Celis, and Bram Wauters
4. From Agency to Institutions and Back: Comparing Legislators' Acting on on Behalf of Women in Parliamentary Democracies, Silvia Erzeel, Didier Caluwaerts, and Karen Celis
5. Electoral Rules and Legislators' Personal Vote-Seeking, Audrey Andre, Andre Freire, and Zsofia Papp
6. Agreement, Loyalty and Discipline; A Sequential Approach to Party Unity, Cynthia M.C. van Vonno, Reut Itzkovitch Malka, Sam Depauw, Reuven Y. Hazan, and Rudy B. Andeweg
7. MPs' inter-party Contacts and the Operation of Party Democracy, Marcelo Jenny, Wolfgang C. Muller, Jonathan Bradbury, Nikolaus Eder, and Gabriella llonszki
8. Legislators' Constituency Orientation, Audrey Andre, Michael Gallagher ,and Giulia Sandri
9. Do the Media Set the Agenda of Parliament or is it the Other Way Around? Agenda Interactions Between MPs and Mass Media, Tor Midtbo, Stefaan Walgrave, Peter Van Aelst, and Dag Arne Christensen
10. Career Patterns in Multilevel Systems, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Filippo Tronconi, Pablo Onate, and Luca Verzichelli
11. The Institutional Constraints of Representation, Kris Deschouwer and Sam Depauw
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