The Visit of An All-Party Group of Members Of Parliament to Spain: Report

Parliamentarians and Party Groups

The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825081.013.15 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 304-322

Author(s):

Reuven Y. Hazan ◽

Reut Itzkovitch-Malka

Keyword(s):

Future Research ◽

New Model ◽

Parliamentary Democracies ◽

Members Of Parliament ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Elected Representatives ◽

Conceptual Confusion ◽

Party Group

Parliamentary democracies show little variance in party unity because the vast majority of parliamentarians vote in near perfect unity with their party on recorded votes. Legislative scholars are thus presented with a paradox: in those systems where party unity is most needed, it is the hardest to study. The focus of this chapter is on the elected representatives of the party, the party’s Members of Parliament (the parliamentary party group ). This chapter addresses the importance of party unity in parliamentary democracies, as well as the conceptual confusion surrounding party unity. It presents a new model for assessing party unity that begins to solve the puzzle of how to explore party unity when near perfect unity is recorded in parliamentary voting, and delineates the recent developments in research on party unity. It concludes by proposing an agenda for future research.

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Lonely Riders and Cooperation Networks: Member of Parliaments’ Private Motions in the Finnish Parliament 1999–2010

World Political Science Review ◽

10.1515/wpsr-2014-0005 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Antti Pajala

Keyword(s):

Party Discipline ◽

Electoral District ◽

Members Of Parliament ◽

Absolute Majority ◽

The Absolute ◽

Party Group

AbstractMembers’ of Parliament (MP) private motions in the Finnish parliament Eduskunta are explored. During 1999–2010, the Finnish MPs introduced nearly 20,000 motions, from which 75% turned out to be budget amendments while legislative motions constituted some 10%. Roughly half were single signer motions while the rest were sponsored by various MP combinations. Only few motions were processed in committees and even fewer got accepted. A growing amount of party motions sponsored by one party group were found. Motions sponsored by MPs from the same electoral district were found as well. A handful of motions sponsored by the absolute majority of Eduskunta were also found. Comparing the sponsor networks with the Swedish parliament, where the MPs tend to cooperate with their group comrades, reveals the Finnish MPs cooperating significantly more often over the party lines. While analyses of plenary voting primarily divide the Finnish MPs into government and opposition blocs the analysis of private motions results in a completely different pattern of cooperation. In Eduskunta matters are initiated somewhat freely while at the stage of decision party discipline steps in.

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A Review of the Electoral Process under Ghana's Fourth Republic

African Journal of International and Comparative Law ◽

10.3366/ajicl.2020.0318 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 355-377

Author(s):

Lydia A. Nkansah ◽

Delali A. Gawu

Keyword(s):

Rule Of Law ◽

Electoral Process ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

Members Of Parliament ◽

Electoral Cycle ◽

Fourth Republic ◽

General Elections ◽

Election Results

There have been seven general elections, under Ghana's Fourth Republic, to elect presidents and members of parliament. There are laws regulating the electoral process and election results have generally been accepted and, in a few cases, challenged through the laid-down process. Elections in Ghana are nonetheless reportedly flawed with irregularities tainting the outcome and creating tensions and sometimes pockets of violence. This article examines the electoral process under Ghana's Fourth Republic, namely the adoption of regulations for each electoral cycle, voters’ registration and the voters’ register, nomination of aspirants, voting, counting of votes and declaration of the results. To ensure the integrity of the electoral process, the laws regulating elections should comply with the dictates of the procedural requirements of the rule of law and the Electoral Commission's actions must be consistent with these laws.

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The 'Glorious Revolution' Down Under: Parliamentary Privilege and the Bill of Rights 1689 (UK) -- Its Application in Criminal Proceedings Against Members of Parliament: England and Australia Compared

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2353712 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Johnston

Keyword(s):

Bill Of Rights ◽

Glorious Revolution ◽

Criminal Proceedings ◽

Members Of Parliament ◽

The Glorious Revolution

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198823704.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jeremy Horder

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Criminal Law ◽

The State ◽

Jury Trial ◽

Members Of Parliament ◽

Adequate Coverage

The criminal law has the resources to address corruption in politics, if prosecutors are willing to use it, and if courts are willing to interpret it so that it provides adequate coverage of wrongdoing, particularly wrongdoing in the form of personal corruption engaged in by Members of Parliament. There needs to be a greater willingness to expose the worst corrupt wrongdoers in high office to the risk of judgment at the bar of public opinion, in the form of jury trial. The offence of misconduct in office provides the most appropriate means of doing this. This is not just because it is likely to provide the most appropriate label, but because the offence highlights the constitutionally fundamental bond of trust between the citizen and the state that is broken when officials indulge in corruption.

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The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties

Political Studies ◽

10.1177/0032321721995632 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003232172199563

Author(s):

Alan Wager ◽

Tim Bale ◽

Philip Cowley ◽

Anand Menon

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Party Competition ◽

Cultural Issues ◽

Value Differences ◽

Economic Issues ◽

Members Of Parliament ◽

Significant Disagreement ◽

Party Members ◽

First Time

Party competition in Great Britain increasingly revolves around social or ‘cultural’ issues as much as it does around the economic issues that took centre stage when class was assumed to be dominant. We use data from surveys of members of parliament, party members and voters to explore how this shift has affected the internal coalitions of the Labour and Conservative Parties – and to provide a fresh test of ‘May’s Law’. We find a considerable disconnect between ‘neoliberal’ Conservative members of parliament and their more centrist voters on economic issues and similarly significant disagreement on cultural issues between socially liberal Labour members of parliament and their more authoritarian voters. We also find differences in both parties between parliamentarians and their grassroots members, albeit that these are much less pronounced. May’s Law, not for the first time, appears not to be borne out in reality.

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Mission of the ICRC Vice-President to the Far East

International Review of the Red Cross ◽

10.1017/s0020860400022701 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 26 (251) ◽

pp. 112-112

Keyword(s):

Far East ◽

Vice President ◽

Red Cross ◽

Government Officials ◽

Staff Members ◽

Members Of Parliament ◽

Geneva Conventions ◽

The Far East ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Republic

Mr. Maurice Aubert, Vice-President of the ICRC, went on mission from 8 to 28 February to the Far East and the Pacific which brought him to Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Australia.In each of the countries visited, Mr. Aubert met government officials, members of parliament and senior staff members of National Red Cross Societies. He discussed various issues of humanitarian interest with them, particularly with regard to the activities of the ICRC in the world and the ratification of the Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions.

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