Ideological Oppositions and Consociational Attitudes in the Belgian Parliament

Intra‐ and Extra‐Parliamentary Role Attitudes and Behaviour of Belgian MPs

“…Research on intra-parliamentary behaviour includes MPs' attendance 5 and specialisation, 6 their interventions in plenary meetings, 7 their use and the success of private member bills and amendments 8 and the content of their political discourse. 9 Voting behaviour only attracted the attention of a few authors. 10 With regard to extra-parliamentary behaviour, several researchers analysed MPs' constituency case work," while two authors made an inventory of the positions parliamentarians hold inside and outside parliament.…”

Legislative Studies in Western Democracies: A Comparative Perspective

“…This is particularly useful in a country like Switzerland, where roll-call votes are few and far between. Several papers presented at a recent conference at the University of Iowa (and published in Legislative Studies Quarterly) explore in some detail the issue cleavages, and their relation to parties, in both Switzerland and Belgium (Dierickx, 1978;Hertig, 1978;Frognier, 1978;de Ridder, Peterson, and Wirth, 1978).…”

Committee Scrutiny Within a Consociational Context: A Northern Ireland Case Study

“…First, studies have identified the coexistence of conciliatory approaches towards sectarian accommodation with the persistence of intensive sectarian identities and agendas reflective of those deep societal divisions (Salamey and Payne ). This juxtaposition encouraged the evolution of a polity in which government through recurrent cross‐party agreements coexisted with continuing confrontational political cultures driven through persistent and intensive sectarianism (Dierickx ).…”