Parliaments and Citizens in Western Europe
Parliaments and Citizens in Western Europe

Author: Philip Norton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-24

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1000144127

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Citizens elect the parliament, but what contract takes place between citizen and parliament in between elections? The authors assess the extent and nature of that contact. To what extent are members of parliament accessible to the ordinary citizen? And what are the implications for the legislature? Can there be too much, or too little, contact?

Parliaments in Contemporary Western Europe
Parliaments in Contemporary Western Europe

Author: Philip Norton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1135254664

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The relationship between parliament and government is fundamental to a political system. In this volume, a distinguished team of specialists explore that relationship and consider to what extent parliaments have the capacity to constrain governments. Are there particular institutional features, such as specialisation through committees, that enhance their capacity to influence public policy?

Members of Parliament in Western Europe
Members of Parliament in Western Europe

Author: Wolfgang C. Muller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1135223378

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Traditional comparative studies of parliaments have focused on constitutional and organizational characteristics of parliaments, or differences in the historical contexts, in which legislative assemblies have developed. The motivations of individual Members of Parliament have been neglected. This volume provides empirical work on legislative role orientations and behaviour in six West European parliaments: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom. All contributions present a wealth of empirical findings on parliamentarians' role orientations in different institutional contexts.

Parliaments and Pressure Groups in Western Europe
Parliaments and Pressure Groups in Western Europe

Author: Philip Norton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1135068186

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Pressure groups are fundamental to pluralist societies. But what is the relationship between those groups and parliaments? This work explores the links between parliaments and pressure groups, assessing the extent and impact of the contact that occurs. Is pressure group activity beneficial to parliament? And what are the implications for the political system?

Parliaments and Governments in Western Europe
Parliaments and Governments in Western Europe

Author: Philip Norton

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780714643854

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This volume identifies and assesses the relationship between parliaments and governments, exploring especially the degree of specialisation within the legislature and its effect on the capacity of the legislature to scrutinise and influence government.

Patterns of Parliamentary Behavior
Patterns of Parliamentary Behavior

Author: Herbert Döring

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1351912526

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This volume begins where the first Döring book of 1995 finished by considering what effects the rules had on legislative output during the same period. It addresses four distinct yet complementary research topics: - the connection between a number of veto players and law production in West European parliamentary democracies - the impact of closed versus open rules - the effects of committee structure and organization on the degree of conflict or consensus on the procedure of passing legislation - the importance of agenda setting and agenda control for the prevention of cycling across issues and the distribution of particular benefits of shifting and transient majorities. Fundamental to this volume is the ability of the project group to fashion an original data set. As a consequence, this volume is able to ascertain the extent to which parliamentary procedures contributed to shaping policy output in this field during the 1980s.

Parliament and Parliamentarism
Parliament and Parliamentarism

Author: Pasi Ihalainen

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1782389555

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Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and regional case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European countries, representative institutions, and genres of political discourse.