Party discipline and parliamentary government

(print) ix, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cmForeword -- Preface -- 1. Party cohesion, party discipline, and parliaments. p.3 -- 2. How political parties emerged from the primeval slime: party cohesion, party discipline, and the formation of governments. p.23 -- 3. Discipline in the British Conservative Party: the attitudes of party activists toward the role of their Members of Parliament. p.53 -- 4. Backbenchers with attitude: a seismic study of the Conservative Party and dissent on Europe. p.72 -- 5. Cohesion of party groups and interparty conflict in the Swiss parliament: roll call voting in the National Council. p.99 -- 6. Electoral systems, parliamentary committees, and party discipline: the Norwegian Storting in a comparative perspective. p.121 -- 7. Parliamentary party discipline in Spain. p.141 -- 8. The parliamentarization of the East Central European parties: party discipline in the Hungarian parliament, 1990-1996. p.167 -- 9. The challenge of diversity: party cohesion in the European Parliament. p.189 -- 10. Parties and party discipline within the European Parliament: a norms-based approach. p.208 -- 11. The costs of coalition: a five-nation comparison. p.227 -- 12. Coalition discipline, enforcement mechanisms, and intraparty politics. p.269 -- Contributors. p.289 -- Index. p.29