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Parliamentary party groups are central actors in most European
democracies. This volume analyzes the manifestations and operations
of these actors across thirteen different countries and in the
European parliament. The partisan groups in parliament form the
link between mass suffrage, parties and parliaments, and are
generally accepted today as necessary instruments of parliamentary
business. The study of parliamentary party groups (PPGs) is
connected with our understanding of liberal, representative
democracy. Moreover, debates about the contempt and apathy towards
contemporary politics and politicians, in which the alleged gap
between voters and representatives, a decline in trust in the
political elite, and complaints about partitocrazia prominently
figure, have put PPGs in the limelight. How do MPs deal with the
tension between being a representative of the people and a member
of a political party? And how do they fulful their task to control
government when fellow partisans are participating in that
government? This book reveals that PPGs have increasing importance.
The "parliamentary party complexes", resulting from the growing
generosity of the state, and the
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