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Hix, Simon; Noury, Abdul G; Roland, Gerard
Cambridge University Press, May 2007, 258 pp, 05/2007Book Chapter
By studying more than 12,000 recorded votes between 1979 and 2004 this book establishes that the opposite is in fact true: transnational parties in the European Parliament are highly cohesive and the classic "left-right" dimension dominates voting behavior. The authors suggest that the main reason for these developments is that like-minded MEPs have incentives to form stable transnational party organizations and to use these organizations to compete over European Union policies. Tables, Figures.
