Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government

by David M. Farrell and Shaun Bowler

Parliamentary government is generally taken to mean party government. Party cohesion and discipline are usually seen as central to the maintenance of parliamentary democracy. This overlap, between disciplined parties on the one hand and parliamentary government on the other, is often seen as so complete and so automatic that the question of party discipline is pushed to the sidelines and rarely studied. Yet, if individual legislators remain an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814250009
• ISBN13: 9780814250006
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"