UID:
almafu_9959234581302883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-20041-5
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9786612001635
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0-511-47997-2
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1-282-00163-9
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0-511-81007-5
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0-511-48077-6
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0-511-47757-0
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0-511-47612-4
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0-511-47909-3
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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To whom are legislators accountable? -- Collective accountability and its discontents -- The supply of visible votes -- Demand for visible votes -- Counting votes -- Explaining voting unity -- The individual-collective balance.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-71191-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-88493-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511810077
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