Parliamentary roles in modern legislatures
By: edited by Magnus Blomgren and Olivier Rozenberg
Series: Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science -- 78
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780415575683; 9780203126493
Subjects: Legislative bodies; Legislators
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Legislative roles and legislative studies: the neo-institutionalist turning point; title: The emergence and transformation of representative roles; title: The consequences of representatives: role orientations: attitudes, behaviour, perceptions; title: Roles as strategies: towards a logic of legislative behavior; title: Legislators and their representational roles: strategic choices or habits of the heart?; title: Party dimensions of representation in Westminster parliaments: Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom; title: Parliamentary roles of MPs in sharp and soft focus: interviews and behavioral record compared; title: Role stability in the context of institutional and positional change; title: The cognitive rationality of role choices: evidences from the European Parliament.