How does cross-party working take place in the House of Commons?

英国议会传统上被描绘成一个高度部落化的立法机构，两大主要政党--自二战以来的工党和保守党--对各自的代表拥有重大权力。自20世纪70年代以来，我们看到政党凝聚力的下降和异议的增加，这些领域引起了学术界的广泛关注。人们较少注意到下议院中个人成员跨党派合作的论坛的发展。其中最有影响力的是立法学者研究得很好的特别委员会。支持或反对政策变化的议员组成的更非正式的特设小组越来越有影响力，但受到的审查要少得多-在2017-2019年议会中，跨党派工作主导了众议院的辩论。这个博士旨在通过询问如何在下议院进行跨党派工作来弥补奖学金的这一重大差距。它试图了解新的群体如何形成，他们如何运作，以及他们成功或失败的方式。本项目将利用精英级访谈和议会记录，发展一种下议院跨党派工作的理论，为立法研究和政治学学科以及更广泛的公众和从业人员提供关于议会运作基本部分的信息

The UK parliament has traditional been portrayed as a highly tribal legislature, where the two main parties - since the second world war Labour and the Conservatives - wield significant power over their representatives. Since the 1970s, we have seen the decline of party cohesion and increases in dissent, areas that have attracted much scholarly attention. Less attention has been paid to the development of forums where individual members collaborate across party lines in the House of Commons. One of the most influential of these has been select committees, well studied by legislative scholars. More informal, ad hoc grouping of members advocating for or against changes in policy have been increasingly influential, but much less scrutinised - in the 2017-2019 parliament cross-party working dominated debate on the floor of the House. This PhD seeks to remedy this significant gap in scholarship by asking how does cross-party working take place in the House of Commons. It seeks to understand how new groups form, how they operate and the ways in which they succeed or fail in their aims. Using elite level interview and the parliamentary record, this project would develop a theory of cross-party working in the House of Commons, informing the legislative studies and political science disciplines, and the wider public and practitioner audience as to a fundamental part of the operation of parliament