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Roll Call Rebels Justin H. Kirkland (University of Virginia)

Roll Call Rebels By Justin H. Kirkland (University of Virginia)

Roll Call Rebels by Justin H. Kirkland (University of Virginia)


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Directly compares the British House of Commons and United States House of Representatives. Through similar motivations, member ideology and party agenda are revealed to produce party disloyalty based on data of legislative voting agenda following changes in agenda control. Legislative scholars are encouraged to regard commonalities of both political systems.

Roll Call Rebels Summary

Roll Call Rebels: Strategic Dissent in the United States and United Kingdom by Justin H. Kirkland (University of Virginia)

Scholars of legislative politics often note the many differences between the British House of Commons and the United States House of Representatives. These include differences in party strength, members' partisan loyalty on votes, and general institutional structure. Because of these differences, scholars have rarely compared these chambers directly. This Element aims to do precisely that. The authors point out the many similar motivations of members in both chambers, and leverage these similar motivations to theorize that member ideology, as well as how party agenda interact to produce party disloyalty. Using data on legislative voting following changes in agenda control, the authors demonstrate that ideological extremists in both the US and UK use party disloyalty to connect with ideologically extreme constituents. The similarities in patterns across these chambers suggest that legislative scholars have much to gain by considering the commonalities across American and British politics, and in general, by thinking more frequently about US legislative politics in a comparative context.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Why the US and UK?; 3. A theory of strategic party rebellion; 4. Party rebels in the United Kingdom and the United States; 5. Politics today and conclusion; 6. References; 7. Acknowledgments.

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NLS9781108701556
9781108701556
1108701558
Roll Call Rebels: Strategic Dissent in the United States and United Kingdom by Justin H. Kirkland (University of Virginia)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2018-12-20
82
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