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Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies, this volume offers a broad comparative assessment of the many faces of parliamentary opposition in different political, legal and cultural settings.Issues of political opposition, and of parliamentary opposition in particular, are at the very heart of the study of democratic processes in different parts of the world. Written by leading scholars in the field, this book looks both at the core features of the parliamentary opposition itself and its role in the legislative and wider political process. This includes an inquiry into the manifold challenges that the parliamentary opposition in many countries has come to face in the more recent past, in particular the rise of different non-parliamentary opposition actors. The countries covered in this volume include the old democracies of the Anglo-Saxon world, continental Europe and Japan, and the new democracies and democratizing regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Africa. Another chapter looks at the manifestations of parliamentary opposition within the multi-level system of the European Union

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Parliamentary Opposition in
Old and New Democracies

Issues of political opposition, and of parliamentary opposition in particular, are at the very heart of the study of democratic processes in different parts of the world. This volume offers a broad comparative assessment of the many faces of parliamentary opposition in different political, legal and cultural settings. It looks both at the core features of the parliamentary opposition itself and its role in the legislative and wider political process. This includes an inquiry into the manifold challenges that the parliamentary opposition in many countries has come face in the more recent past. The countries covered in this volume include the old democracies of the Anglo-Saxon world, continental Europe and Japan, and the new democracies and democratising regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Africa. Another chapter looks at the manifestations of parliamentary opposition within the multi-level system of the European Union. All chapters have been written by leading scholars in the field.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.

Ludger Helms is Professor of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck.

Library of Legislative Studies
Edited by Lord Philip Norton of Louth, University of Hull, UK.

National Parliaments & the European Union
Edited by Philip Norton

The New Parliaments of Central & Eastern Europe
Edited by David M. Olson & Philip Norton

Members of Parliament in Western Europe
Edited by Wolfgang C. Muller & Thomas Saalfield

The New Roles of Parliamentary Committees
Edited by Lawrence D. Longley & Roger H. Davidson

Conscience and Parliamant
Edited by Philip Cowley

Parliaments & Governments in Western Europe
Edited by Philip Norton

Parliaments and Pressure Groups in Western Europe
Edited by Philip Norton

Parliaments in Asia
Edited by Philip Norton & Nizam Ahmed

The Uneasy Relationship between Parliamentary Members and Leaders
Lawrence D. Longley & Reuven Yair Hazan

Delegation and Accountability in European Integration
Edited by Torbjorn Bergman & Erik Damgaard

Second Chambers
Edited by Nicholas Baldwin & Donald Shell

Parliaments and Citizens in Western Europe
Edited by Philip Norton

The Rise of the Norwegian Parliament
Edited by Hilmar Rommetvedt

The Unseen Hand
Edited by Rinus van Schendelen & Roger Scully

The Scottish Parliaments
Edited by David Arter

From Legislation to Legitimation: The Role of the Portuguese Parliament
Edited by Cristina Leston-Bandeira

Cohesion & Discipline in Legislature
Edited by Reuven Y. Hazan

Southern European Parliaments in Democracy
Cristina Leston-Bandeira

Executive Leadership & Legislative Assemblies
Edited by Nicholas Baldwin

The Europeanisation of Parliamentary Democracy
Edited by Katrin Auel and Arthur Benz

Comparing and Classifying Legislatures
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Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies
Edited by Ludger Helms

Parliamentary Opposition in
Old and New Democracies

Edited by Ludger Helms

First published 2009 by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business

2009 Edited by Ludger Helms

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Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJI Digital Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN10: 0-415-39070-2
ISBN13: 978-0-415-39070-5

Contents

Studying Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies: Issues and Perspectives	Ludger Helms
PART I PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION IN OLD DEMOCRACIES
1. Parliamentary Opposition in Westminster Democracies: Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand	Andr Kaiser
2. Parliamentary Opposition under Minority Parliamentarism: Scandinavia	Flemming Juul Christiansen and Erik Damgaard
3. Parliamentary Opposition in Post-Consociational Democracies: Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands	Rudy B. Andeweg, Lieven De Winter and Wolfgang C. Mller
4. Parliamentary Opposition under (Post-)One-Party Rule: Japan	Takashi Inoguchi
PART II PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION IN NEW DEMOCRACIES
5. Parliamentary Opposition in Post-Communist Democracies: Power of the Powerless	Petr Kopeck and Maria Spirova
6. Parliamentary Opposition in Non-Parliamentary Regimes: Latin America	Scott Morgenstern, Juan Javier Negri and Anbal Prez-Lin
7. Parliamentary Opposition after Apartheid: South Africa	Robert A. Schrire
8. Parliamentary Opposition and its Alternatives in a Transnational Regime: The European Union in Perspective	Ludger Helms
Philip Norton

Rudy B. Andeweg is Professor of Political Science at Leiden University and a Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include political representation, executive-legislative relations, and coalition government. He co-directed the Dutch Parliamentary Studies of 2001 and 2006, based on interviews with MPs. On the basis of these studies he published articles in journals such as The Journal of Legislative Studies, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He co-authored Governance and Politics of The Netherlands (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edn., 2005).

Flemming Juul Christiansen is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus. He is primarily interested in political parties, parliaments, interest organisations and Scandinavian politics. His latest publication (with Elin H. Allern and Nicholas Aylott) is: Social Democrats and Trade Unions in Scandinavia, European Journal of Political Research, 46/5 (2007), pp.60735.

Erik Damgaard is Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus. His professional interests include legislative studies, parliamentary government, coalition studies and democratic theory. He has published widely in books and journals on Danish and Nordic parliaments and politics over the past several decades. His latest publications (with H. Jensen) include Europeanisation of Executive-Legislative Relations: Nordic Perspectives, in K. Auel and A. Benz (eds.),

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