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Legislative Voting and Accountability

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ISBN-10: 0521711916

ISBN-13: 9780521711913

Edition: 2009

Authors: John M. Carey

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Legislatures are the core representative institutions in modern democracies. Citizens want legislatures to be decisive, and they want accountability, but they are frequently disillusioned with the representation legislators deliver. Political parties can provide decisiveness in legislatures, and they may provide collective accountability, but citizens and political reformers frequently demand another type of accountability from legislators - at the individual level. Can legislatures provide both kinds of accountability? This book considers what collective and individual accountability require and provides the most extensive cross-national analysis of legislative voting undertaken to date.…    
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Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

John M. Carey is John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. He has also taught at the Universidad Cat#243;lica de Chile, the University of Rochester, Washington University in St Louis, Harvard University, and at the Fundaci#243;n Juan March in Madrid, Spain. His interests are comparative politics, elections, and Latin American politics. His research focuses on institutional design and democratic representation. Carey's books include Legislative Voting and Accountability (Cambridge University Press), Executive Decree Authority (with Matthew Shugart, Cambridge University Press), Term Limits in the State Legislatures (with Richard Niemi and Lynda Powell, University…    

To whom are legislators accountable?
Collective accountability and its discontents
The supply of visible votes
Demand for visible votes
Counting votes
Explaining voting unity
The individual-collective balance