Parliamentary government is generally taken to mean party
government. Party cohesion and discipline are usually seen as
central to the maintenance of parliamentary democracy. This
overlap, between disciplined parties on the one hand and
parliamentary government on the other, is often seen as so complete
and so automatic that the question of party discipline is pushed to
the sidelines and rarely studied. Yet, if individual legislators
remain an undisciplined mob, parliaments could easily become unruly
and anarchical.
How and why party discipline arises and is maintained are thus
central questions of importance in legislative, and especially
parliamentary, studies. Our knowledge of these topics, however,
suffers from substantial gaps, especially with regard to the
practice of party cohesion outside the relatively familiar
Anglo-American setting.
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 as Britain, Finland,
Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland are
covered, as are the more recent democracies of Spain and Hungary,
and the unique case of the transnational European Parliament.
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