Rationalizing parliamentary systems
Rationalizing parliamentary systems
Public Choice analysis of democratic political institutions focuses on the issues that are most salient under US constitutional arrangements. Parliamentary systems offer different institutional arrangements and different challenges to the Public Choice approach. We outline a Public Choice account of parliamentary democracy which concentrates attention on the roles of electoral competition and disciplined political parties, while also offering a discussion of parliamentary procedure. The Public Choice approach is contrasted with the mainstream view of representative, responsible government in which disciplined political parties are often seen as a threat to parliamentary democracy.
443-457
Brennan, Geoffrey
f5def8d6-7caf-4304-80a6-9ca276ee91b6
Hamlin, Alan
f7d1bc67-817f-4c69-b8a0-6ea5725e664f
November 1993
Brennan, Geoffrey
f5def8d6-7caf-4304-80a6-9ca276ee91b6
Hamlin, Alan
f7d1bc67-817f-4c69-b8a0-6ea5725e664f
Brennan, Geoffrey and Hamlin, Alan
(1993)
Rationalizing parliamentary systems.
Australian Journal of Political Science, 28 (3), .
(doi:10.1080/00323269308402253).
Abstract
Public Choice analysis of democratic political institutions focuses on the issues that are most salient under US constitutional arrangements. Parliamentary systems offer different institutional arrangements and different challenges to the Public Choice approach. We outline a Public Choice account of parliamentary democracy which concentrates attention on the roles of electoral competition and disciplined political parties, while also offering a discussion of parliamentary procedure. The Public Choice approach is contrasted with the mainstream view of representative, responsible government in which disciplined political parties are often seen as a threat to parliamentary democracy.
This record has no associated files available for download.
More information
Published date: November 1993
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 32953
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/32953
ISSN: 1036-1146
PURE UUID: 40614d74-c6ba-4d8f-8af8-3e851992e1b0
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 11 Dec 2007
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:40
Export record
Altmetrics
Contributors
Author:
Geoffrey Brennan
Author:
Alan Hamlin
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics