Parliamentary party groups in European democracies : political parties behind closed doors / edited by Knut Heidar and Ruud Koole.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index.

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Chapter Introduction -- Knut Heidar and Ruud Koole / Representative democracy and parliamentary parry groups -- chapter 1 Approaches to the study of parliamentary party groups / Knut Heidar -- chapter 2 Bureaucratisation, coordination and competition -- Thomas Saalfeld / Parliamentary party groups in the German Bundestag -- chapter 3 The United Kingdom -- Philip Norton / Exerting influence from within -- chapter 4 Parliamentary parties in the French Fifth Republic / Jean-Louis Thiébault -- chapter 5 Not yet the locus of power -- Wolfgang C. Müller and Barbara Steininger / Parliamentary party groups in Austria -- chapter 6 Fractiocracy? -- Rudy B. Andeweg / Limits to the ascendancy of the parliamentary party group in Dutch politics -- chapter 7 PPGs in Belgium -- Lieven De Winter and Patrick Dumont / Subjects of partitocratic dominion -- chapter 8 A power centre in Danish politics / Lars Bille -- chapter 9 Parliamentary party groups in the Swedish Riksdag / Magnus Hagevi -- chapter 10 The partyness of the Finnish Eduskunta / Matti Wiberg -- chapter 11 The limits of whips and watchdogs -- Petr Kopecký / Parliamentary parties in the Czech Republic -- chapter 12 Parliamentary party groups in Slovakia / Darina Malová -- chapter 13 Parties and parliamentary party groups in the making -- Hungary, 1989-1997 / Gabriella Ilonszki -- chapter 14 Second-rate parties? -- Tapio Raunio / Towards a better understanding of the European Parliament's party groups -- chapter 15 Parliamentary party groups compared / Knut Heidar.

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