The Uneasy Relationships Between Parliamentary Members and Leaders

by Hazan,Reuven Y.

• ISBN13: 9780714681108
• ISBN10: 0714681105
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Parliamentary members and parliamentary leaders recurrently find themselves in uneasy - and even testy - relationships. The interests of parliamentary leaders in programme adoption often are at tension with the concerns of members of parliament with individual advancement in parliament and party, with interest articulation and with constituency concerns. This cross-national work analyzes these difficult and often testy relations and tensions between parliamentary members and leaders through studies ranging from Germany to the United States, and from New Zealand to global perspectives. The bases of such uneasy member-leadership relations, their manifestation and sometimes resolution, and the consequences of member-leadership tension to effective parliamentary performance and policy-making is considered in each examination.

Table of Contents

On the Uneasy, Delicate, yet Necessary Relationships between Parliamentary Members and Leaders	1	(23)
Lawrence D. Longley
Reuven Y. Hazan
What Can an Individual MP Do in German Parliamentary Politics?	23	(30)
Werner J. Patzelt
The Individual Member in the British House of Commons: Facing both Ways and Marching Forward	53	(22)
Philip Norton
From Committee Government to Party Government: Changing Opportunities for Amendment Sponsors in the US House of Representatives, 1945-98	75	(30)
John E. Owens
The Individual Parliamentary Member and Institutional Change: The Changing Role of the New Zealand Member of, Parliament	105	(26)
Fiona Barker
Stephen Levine
Parliamentary Members and Leaders as Agents of Reform: Parliamentary and Regime Change Revisited	131	(78)
Lawrence D. Longley
Taylor M. Hoffman
The Office of Speaker in Comparative Perspective	209	(46)
Stanley Bach
The Keys to Togetherness: Coalition Agreements in Parliamentary Democracies	255	(28)
Kaare Strom
Wolfgang C. Muller
Dilemmas and Opportunities of Legislative Leadership in a Non-Parliamentary System: The US Case	283	(20)
Barbara Sinclair
Yes, Institutions Matter: The Impact of Institutional Reform on Parliamentary Members and Leaders in Israel	303	(24)
Reuven Y. Hazan
Abstracts	327	(6)
Index	333