Foreword | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Theories and Definitions | |
Party Cohesion, Party Discipline, and Parliaments | p. 3 |
How Political Parties Emerged from the Primeval Slime: Party Cohesion, Party Discipline, and the Formation of Governments | p. 23 |
The "Westminster Model" | |
Discipline in the British Conservative Party: The Attitudes of Party Activists toward the Role of Their Members of Parliament | p. 53 |
Backbenchers with Attitude: A Seismic Study of the Conservative Party and Dissent on Europe | p. 72 |
Established Continental European Systems | |
Cohesion of Party Groups and Interparty Conflict in the Swiss Parliament: Roll Call Voting in the National Council | p. 99 |
Electoral Systems, Parliamentary Committees, and Party Discipline: The Norwegian Storting in a Comparative Perspective | p. 121 |
Parliamentary Party Discipline in Spain | p. 141 |
Newly Emerging Systems | |
The Parliamentarization of the East Central European Parties: Party Discipline in the Hungarian Parliament, 1990-1996 | p. 167 |
The Challenge of Diversity: Party Cohesion in the European Parliament | p. 189 |
Parties and Party Discipline within the European Parliament: A Norms-Based Approach | p. 208 |
Parliamentary Discipline and Coalition Governments | |
The Costs of Coalition: A Five-Nation Comparison | p. 227 |
Coalition Discipline, Enforcement Mechanisms, and Intraparty Politics | p. 269 |
Contributors | p. 289 |
Index | p. 291 |
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