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Early Day Motions as Unobtrusive Measures of Backbench Opinion in Britain

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  • Franklin, Mark N.
  • Tappin, Michael

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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.

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  • Franklin, Mark N. & Tappin, Michael, 1977. "Early Day Motions as Unobtrusive Measures of Backbench Opinion in Britain," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 7(1), pages 49-69, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:7:y:1977:i:01:p:49-69_00
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    1. Sarah Childs & Julie Withey, 2004. "Women Representatives Acting for Women: Sex and the Signing of Early Day Motions in the 1997 British Parliament," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 52(3), pages 552-564, October.
    2. Nason, Guy P., 2005. "pinktoe: Semi-automatic Traversal of Trees," Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistics, vol. 14(i01).

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