Early Day Motions as Unobtrusive Measures of Backbench Opinion in Britain
- 27 January 1977
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 7 (1) , 49-69
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400003963
Abstract
One of the major unexplored areas in the literature of political science in Britain is the relationship between the attitudes of individual legislators in policy areas and their behaviour in the House of Commons. In the United States, the study of legislative behaviour has benefited from the fact that the unobtrusive measurement of the attitudes of legislators has been possible through the aggregation of roll-call votes. This procedure has provided the foundation for a body of literature upon which a theoretical framework has been constructed for further research.Keywords
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