Political Science, Political Parties, General 

Legislators.Legislative bodies--Leadership. 

Parliamentary members and parliamentary leaders recurrently find themselves in uneasy - and even testy - relationships. The interests of parliamentary leaders in programme adoption often are at tension with the concerns of members of parliament with individual advancement in parliament and party, with interest articulation and with constituency concerns. This cross-national work analyzes these difficult and often testy relations and tensions between parliamentary members and leaders through studies ranging from Germany to the United States, and from New Zealand to global perspectives. The bases of such uneasy member-leadership relations, their manifestation and sometimes resolution, and the consequences of member-leadership tension to effective parliamentary performance and policy-making is considered in each examination.
 

The bases of uneasy member-leadership relations, their manifestation and sometimes resolution, and the consequences of member-leadership tension to effective parliamentary performace and policy-making are considered in studies ranging from Germany to the US and New Zealand and globally. - from Amzon 

CONTENTS
On the Uneasy; Delicate, yet Necessary Relationship between
Parliamentary Members and Leaders…………………………………………………P 1
Longley, Lawrence D, - Hazan, Reuven Y
What can an Individual MP Do in German Parliamentary Politics……….P 23
Werner J. Patzelt
The Individual Member in the British House of Commons: Facing both
Ways and Marching Forward……………………………………………………………….P 53
Philip Norton
From Committee Government Party Government: Changing Opportunities for Amendment Sponsors in the US House of Representatives, 1945-98…………p 75
John E. Owens
The Individual parliamentary member and Institutional Change: The Changing role of The New Zealand Member of Parliament…………………………………………………p 105
Fiona Barker and Stephen Levine
Parliamentary Member and The Leaders as agents of Reform: Parliamentary and Regime Change of Revisited………………………………………………………………………p 131
Lawrence D. Longley and Taylor M. Hoffman
The office of Speaker in Comparative Perspective………………………………………..P 209
Stanley
The Keys to Togetherness: Coalition Agreements in Parliamentary
Democracies…………………………………………………………………………………………………P 255
Kaare Strom and Wolfgang c. Muller
Dilemmas and Opportunities of Legislative leadership in a non-Parliamentary System: The US Case…………………………………………………………………………………p 283
Barbara Sinclair
Yes, Institutions Matter: The Impact of Institutional Reform on Parliamentary Members and Leaders in Israel………………………………………………………………….P 303