Cohesion and defections in the European parliament : the effect of cross-pressure

2009

Masteroppgave i offentlig politikk og ledelse- Universitetet i Agder 2009 The study on voting cohesion in the European Parliament seems to be heavily influenced by scholars like Noury and Roland, that argues for a very high voting cohesion in the European Parliament (e.g. Noury and Roland 2002). This view is balanced by those who argues that there is a bias in the data that are being used to determine this high level of voting cohesion (e.g. Carruba and Gabel 1999). There are some that argues that the co-decision procedure leads to a higher interest by the national parties on how their representatives in the European Parliament votes (e.g. Carruba and Gabel in Scully 2001). The more power t…