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Machine generated contents note:1.Party Discipline in Canada --2.Representation --3.Partisan Teams --4.The Communications Arena --5.Message Discipline --6.Government Centralization --7.Parliamentary Caucuses --8.Caucus Research Bureaus --9.Legislative Assemblies --10.Managing Trouble --11.The SNC-Lavalin Affair --12.Advice for a New Parliamentarian.

Der vorliegende Beitrag befaßt sich mit der parteiinternen Reformdiskussion über Fragen der praktisch-politischen Arbeit sowie des ideologischen Selbstverständnisses der KP Chinas im Spannungsgeflecht einer Stärkung der Parteidisziplin und des Parteigeistes einerseits und administrativ-ökonomischer Notwendigkeiten der Wirtschaftsreform andererseits. (BIOst-Klk)

This article analyses the role of parties in political systems with legislative initiative. The model explicitly takes into account the multi-district nature of elections so that voters recognize that they are not voting for a policy but for members of a policy-making body. In this setting, parties can attain their ideological goals without resorting to extreme discipline of their members in the legislature. With respect to the electorate, although voters are endowed with perfect information about their candidates' ideological stance, this model explains how the legislature will display correlation across ideology & party, a feature often attributed to imperfect information.

This article analyses the role of parties in political systems with legislative initiative. The model explicitly takes into account the multi-district nature of elections so that voters recognize that they are not voting for a policy but for members of a policy-making body. In this setting, parties can attain their ideological goals without resorting to extreme discipline of their members in the legislature. With respect to the electorate, although voters are endowed with perfect information about their candidates' ideological stance, this model explains how the legislature will display correlation across ideology and party, a feature often attributed to imperfect information.