Democratic politics in the European Parliament
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2007
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| Series: | Themes in European governance
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Development of the European Parliament
- Democracy, transaction costs and political parties
- Ideological not territorial politics
- Participation
- Trends in party cohesion
- Agenda setting and cohesion
- Who controls the MEPS?
- Competition and coalition formation
- Dimensions of politics
- Investiture and censure of the Santer Commission
- The takeover directive