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MPs' Roles and Representation: Orientations, Incentives and Behaviours in Italy
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This book examines the content of MPs' activities through which parliamentarians
generate representative claims.
Challenging the idea that studying individual representation is a futile exercise, this
book shows that looking at the opinions and behavioural patterns of parliamentarians can
shed light on some important questions: What are the interests represented in
parliament? How important are electoral incentives in shaping the role of
representatives? What is the impact of parliamentarians' personal characteristics?
Focussing on the role played by Italian members of the Chamber of Deputies across a
period of more than 20 years, the study applies role analysis to connect the normative
debates on political representation to empirical studies and is underpinned by a rich
data set of parliamentary activities and surveys on parliamentarians' attitudes and
opinions.
The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of legislative studies,
European politics, Italian studies/politics, and more broadly to comparative
politics.