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Note, however, that these percentage differ from those in Table 5.17 (where the percentage of representa ves who disagree infrequently with their party was 71 percent at the na onal,

This book introduces a theore cal model of MP decision making in which the main decision-making mechanisms, derived from the exis ng literature on the pathways

5.18 Party agreement (the frequency of disagreement with the party’s posi- on on a vote in parliament) and ‘I feel involved in the decision making in the party group’ in the

This decision-making mechanism is based on the preference homogeneity pathway, which holds that party group unity results from the fact that an individual is likely to join the poli

The responsible party model holds that the polit- ical party ought to be the main actor in the representa onal rela onship, “[i]ndividual poli cians play a second fiddle, at

If the MP does not subscribe to the norm of party group loyalty, or the MP does sub- scribe to the norm but his disagreement with the party group’s posi on is so intense that

The more inclusive and decentralized the selectorate, however, the more compe ng principals there are within the poli cal party to whom an MP may owe his allegiance, and thus the

This observation is in line with the brass alloys from Roman period brooches and military equipment found in Masada, Israel, as well as in Britain and other locations in Western