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，其中两大政党——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，我们看到了政党凝聚力的下降和异议的增加，这些领域吸引了很多学者的关注。在下议院中，个人议员跨党派合作的论坛的发展受到的关注较少。其中最具影响力的是特别委员会，立法学者对此进行了深入研究。在2017-2019年议会跨党派工作主导的众议院辩论中，倡导或反对政策变化的非正式、特设成员团体的影响力越来越大，但受到的审查却少得多。这位博士试图通过探究下议院的跨党派工作是如何进行的，来弥补这一重大的学术差距。它试图了解新群体是如何形成的，他们是如何运作的，以及他们成功或失败的方式。通过精英级别的访谈和议会记录，该项目将发展下议院跨党派工作的理论，向立法研究和政治科学学科，以及更广泛的公众和从业者观众介绍议会运作的基本部分

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