Legislative Voting and Accountability

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:John M. Carey

页数:216

出版时间:2008-12

价格:GBP 54.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521884938

丛书系列:Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

图书标签:比较政治政治学资源英文原版法学

Legislatures are the core representative institutions in modern democracies. Citizens want legislatures to be decisive, and they want accountability, but they are frequently disillusioned with the representation legislators deliver. Political parties can provide decisiveness in legislatures, and they may provide collective accountability, but citizens and political reformers frequently demand another type of accountability from legislators – at the individual level. Can legislatures provide both kinds of accountability? This book considers what collective and individual accountability require and provides the most extensive cross-national analysis of legislative voting undertaken to date. It illustrates the balance between individualistic and collective representation in democracies, and how party unity in legislative voting shapes that balance. In addition to quantitative analysis of voting patterns, the book draws on extensive field and archival research to provide an extensive assessment of legislative transparency throughout the Americas.

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