David M Willumsen

The Acceptance of Party Unity in Parliamentary Democracies

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Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to explain how political parties in parliamentary countries manage to be almost perfectly united when it comes to voting in parliament.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780198805434
• ISBN-10: 0198805438
• Artikelnr.: 48064694

Autorenporträt

David M. Willumsen is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Innsbruck. In 2013 he received his PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute, Florence, on the topic of party unity in European legislatures, having spent four months as an exchange student at ETH Zürich in 2011. From July 2013 to September 2016, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow on the DFG-funded project 'Staggered membership renewal and differential time horizons in second chambers'.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Puzzle of Backbench Assent
2: Theoretical Framework
3: Attitudes to Party Unity in the Nordic Countries
4: The Acceptance of Party Unity in Sweden, 1985 to 2010
5: Perceptions of Party Unity in the Visegrád Countries
6: Conclusion
Appendices