To understand legislative behavior and party politics in the European Parliament (EP), scholars to date have heavily …

This article looks at the development of the two main features of the party system in the European Parliament (EP): the … Parliament. On the competition side, we focus on the main axis of competition: the relationship between the Party of European …

The European Parliament is a unique opportunity to study the development of trans-national democracy. The formation of … distinctly left-right, and not national, pattern of voting in the Parliament. Hix, Noury, and Roland (2007) claim that this left …-right pattern indicates the European Parliament has a system of party competition similar to other democratic parliaments, giving …

Given its recent development of becoming a fully fledged legislature in EU politics, the European Parliament is … party cohesion within the European Parliament (see, for instance, Hix et al. 2007) do not refer to the American example … and explaining figures of party cohesion between the USA House of Representatives and the EU European Parliament. The …

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency …