Voting patterns and alliance formation in the European Parliament

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1518, 2009, Pages 821-831

  Hix, Simon ^a   Noury, Abdul ^b   Roland, Gérard ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; European Parliament; Legislative behaviour; Political parties; Roll call voting

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN UNION; INCENTIVE; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL POWER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 60349101638     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0263     Document Type: Review

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