This book emerged from a series of papers presented at a workshop which was part of the European Consortium for Political Research's join sessions in France in 1995. This book marks a step toward filling some of those gaps. The collection of essays presented here provides theoretical background and comparative studies of legislatures in a wide range of settings. Well-developed democracies such …
Rules of procedure
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 book establishes that the opposite is in fact true: transnational parties in the Europe…