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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Party discipline"”.
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Revisiting democracy : Canada's quest for a more participatory form of representative government
… These reforms are: (1) recall, (2) loosening party discipline and introducing more votes, (3) referendums, and (4) electoral reform. Although it is hypothesized that all four reforms would provide Canadians with a more participatory form of representative government, empirical and qualitative …
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Central Party Authority and Constituency Campaign Discipline in Canadian Federal Elections
… are known for their centralized power and strong party discipline (Godbout 2020; Marland 2020; Savoie 1999; 2019). However, there are conflicting expectations for how these tendencies are reflected during federal elections, which are composed of 338 distinct constituency campaigns under …
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Restoration, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Liberty at Last in Clarke County, Virginia, 1865-1879
… Blacks took advantage of poor Conservative party discipline and white class schisms to build community institutions, like churches, schools, and mutual aid societies. The restoration of white supremacy encountered stiff black resistance, but elite whites eventually consolidated their power. …
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Political behaviour in the United Kingdom: An examination of Members of Parliament and Voters
… the UK parliamentary system's reliance on strong party discipline has important adverse consequences for public approval. Firstly, I show how high-salience debates such Prime Minister's Questions bring out the worst behaviours in MPs. As parties' access to the floor (ability to make speeches) is …
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The Legislative Consequences of Electoral Reform: Adoption of the Mixed-Member System in Taiwan
… elected in local districts and those elected in party lists. It also investigates whether candidate nomination rules in place before the reform affected legislative behaviors. The data covers four congressional periods, two before and two after the electoral reform. The dissertation analyzes …
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Does a dominant party democracy erode constitutional legitimacy? An analysis of the African national congress and the South African constitution
… a state functioning under a dominant political party. There are certain pathologies which develop in a dominant political party state, pathologies which lead to autocratic rule and which has the potential to undermine the constitutional institutions such as that created by the South African …
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Criteria for majority party leadership selection in the United States House of Representatives : evidence of institutionalization in the collegial style, 1962-1976
… further the process of selection of majority party leaders in the United States House of Representatives. It will seek to show that there were certain common denominators that existed among those who were selected for leadership positions between 1962 and 1976, and that these common …