Based on papers presented at a workshop which was part of the European Consortium for Political Research's joint sessions in France in 1995.
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Party cohesion, party discipline, and parliaments / Shaun Bowler, David M. Farrell, and Richard S. Katz -- How political parties emerged from the primeval slime: party cohesion, party discipline, and the formation of governments / Michael Laver and Kenneth A. Shepsle -- Discipline in the British conservative party: the attitudes of party activists toward the role of their members of parliament / Paul F. Whitely and Patrick Seyd -- Backbenchers with attitude: a seismic study of the conservative party and dissent on Europe / David Baker [and others] -- Cohesion of party groups and interparty conflict in the Swiss parliament: roll call voting in the national council / Prisca Lanfranchi and Ruth Lüthi -- Electoral systems, parliamentary committees, and party discipline: the Norwegian Storting in a comparative perspective / Bjørn Erik Rasch -- Parliamentary party discipline in Spain / Manuel Sánchez de Dios -- The parliamentarization of the east central European parties: party discipline in the Hungarian parliament, 1990-1996 / Attila Ágh -- The challenge of diversity: party cohesion in the European parliament / Tapio Raunio -- Parties and party discipline within the European parliament: a norms-based approach / Shaun Bowler and David M. Farrell -- The costs of coalition: a five-nation comparison / Carol Mershon -- Coalition discipline, enforcement mechanisms, and intraparty politics / Paul Mitchell.