Thierse, Stefan (2016) Inside the voting behaviour of MEPs: why only some votes are recorded in the European Parliament. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (06 Apr 2016). Website.
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Abstract
Only some of the votes which take place in the European Parliament are so called ‘roll call votes’, where the positions of MEPs are recorded. These votes provide a set of reliable data that has been used in research to assess the dynamics of decision-making in the Parliament, but as Stefan Thierse writes, the factors which lead to a roll call vote being called are less well understood. Outlining results from a recent study, he finds that the reasons for calling roll-call votes often have more to do with advertising the positions taken by particular groups, rather than encouraging party discipline among individual MEPs.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2017 11:02 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2024 00:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/70595 |
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