To defect or not to defect? National, institutional and party group pressures on MEPs and their consequences for party group cohesion in the European Parliament
To defect or not to defect? National, institutional and party group pressures on MEPs and their consequences for party group cohesion in the European Parliament
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叛逃还是不叛逃？
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2003
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T. Faas
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T. Faas
本研究分析了欧洲议会党团凝聚力和国家政党代表团脱离党团路线的模式，共使用了2，582张唱名投票。这项研究证实了先前的研究结果，即欧洲议会中的政党团体表现出（令人惊讶的）高凝聚力。然而，它揭示了在何种情况下，欧洲议会议员（欧洲议会议员）及其国家代表团更有可能叛逃，使用候选人选择过程，选举制度和欧洲议会议员与其家乡政党之间的关系作为解释变量。假设欧洲议会议员有三个不同的目标（连任，办公室和政策），并希望首先确保连任，可以预期，那些连任的机会比其他人更依赖于国家政党的欧洲议会议员更愿意投票反对党团路线，如果党团和国家政党之间的冲突出现。从经验上讲，这一点得到了证实。
This study analyzes party group cohesion and patterns of defections of national party delegations from party group lines in the European Parliament (EP), using a total of 2,582 roll call votes. The study confirms previous findings according to which party groups in the EP show (surprisingly) high levels of cohesion. Nevertheless, it reveals the circumstances under which Members of the EP (MEPs) and their national delegations are more likely to defect, using the candidate selection process, the electoral system and relationships between MEPs and their home parties as explanatory variables. Assuming that MEPs have three different goals (re-election, office and policy), and want above all to secure re-election, one can expect that those MEPs whose chances of re-election are more dependent on national parties than others are more willing to vote against the party group line if a conflict between party group and national party emerges. Empirically, this is confirmed.