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| Other authors / contributors: | Noury, Abdul.
Roland, GeĢrard, 1954-
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| ISBN: | 9780511279232
051127923X
0511278632
9780511278631
9786610850464
6610850461
1107172187
9781107172180
1280850469
9781280850462
0511491956
9780511491955
0511321627
9780511321627
9780521872881
052187288X
9780521694605
0521694604
0511277466
9780511277467
0511278055
9780511278051
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | With the European Parliament comprising politicians from many different countries, cultures, languages, national parties and institutional backgrounds, one might expect politics in the Parliament to be highly-fragmented and unpredictable. By studying more than 12,000 recorded votes between 1979 and 2004 this 2007 book establishes that the opposite is in fact true: transnational parties in the European Parliament are highly cohesive and the classic 'left-right' dimension dominates voting behaviour. Furthermore, the cohesion of parties in the European Parliament has increased as the powers of the Parliament have increased. The authors suggest that the main reason for these developments is that like-minded MEPs have incentives to form stable transnational party organizations and to use these organizations to compete over European Union policies. They suggest that this is a positive development for the future of democratic accountability in the European Union.
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| Other form: | Print version: Hix, Simon. Democratic politics in the European Parliament. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521872881
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