The Uneasy Relationships Between Parliamentary Members and Leaders

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7146-8110-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

The bases of uneasy member-leadership relations, their manifestation and sometimes resolution, and the consequences of member-leadership tension to effective parliamentary performace and policy-making are considered in studies ranging from Germany to the US and New Zealand and globally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hazan, Reuven Y.

Longley, Lawrence D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

On the uneasy, delicate, yet necessary relationships between parliamentary members and leaders, Lawrence D. Longley, Reuven Y. Hazan; what can an individual MP do in German parliamentary politics? Werner J. Patzelt; the individual member in the British House of Commons - facing both ways and marching forward, Philip Norton; from committee government to party government - changing opportunities for amendment sponsors in the US House of Representatives, 1945-98, John E. Owens; the individual parliamentary member and institutional change - the changing role of the New Zealand member of parliament, Fiona Barker, Stephen Levine; parliamentary members and leaders as agents of reform - parliamentary and regime change revisited, Lawrence D. Longley, Taylor M. Hoffman; the Office of Speaker in comparative perspective, Stanley Bach; the keys to togetherness -coalition agreements in parliamentary democracies, Kaare Strom, Wolfgang C. Muller; dilemmas and opportunities of legislative leadership in a non-parliamentary system - the US case, Barbara Sinclair; yes, institutions matter - the impact of institutional reform on parliamentary members and leaders in Israel, Reuven Y. Hazan.

Über Autor(innen)

Reuven Y. Hazan, Lawrence D. Longley