Publication details
Jako jeden muž? Jednota hlasování poslanců v parlamentních demokraciích
| Title in English | United We Stand? Legislative Unity in Parliamentary Democracies |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The book captures the temporal dimension in legislative voting unity in parliamentary democracies. It examines the results from the British House of Commons, the Finnish Eduskunta, the German Bundestag, the Czech House of Representatives, and the Slovak National Council. The author uses two legislative unity indices, the Rice index (measuring declared preferential unity), and the UNITY index (which considers what part of the group has voted). The indices are used to construct an original research framework, “polarity vectors”, which may used to analyse parliamentary voting and its evolution. The analysis confirms the benefits of both the temporal analysis and the polarity vectors framework and finds differences in voting between stable (UK, Finland, Germany) and instable cases (Czechia, Slovakia). |
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