Intraparty Conflict, Coalition Politics, and Legislative Decision-Making

Abstract

In much of the literature on government formation and legislative behaviour, parties are treated as “unitary actors”. This assumption is problematic since parties represent divergent interests of various members in several regional and organisational units, and such ideological heterogeneity can have important political consequences. The papers presented in this panel aim at analysing the consequences of ideological heterogeneity within parties for government formation and ministerial selection on the one side and legislative activity like giving speeches and introducing law proposals on the other side in a comparative manner.

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Party Differentiation and Legislative Review in Coalition Government	View Paper Details
Intra-Party Diversity and Cabinet Appointment. An Analysis of Speech Making and Ministerial Selection in Four European Countries	View Paper Details
Dynamic Political Rhetoric: Electoral, Economic and Partisan Determinants of Speech Making in the UK Parliament	View Paper Details
Parties, Preference Aggregation, and Policy: An Institutional Perspective on Redistribution	View Paper Details
Talking Conflict Inside and Outside Parliament: Target-Specific Communication in Legislative Speech and Press Releases	View Paper Details