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Making punches count : the individual logic of legislative brawls / Emily Beaulieu Bacchus, Nathan F. Batto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bacchus, Emily Beaulieu, author.
- Batto, Nathan F., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legislative bodies.
- Parliamentary practice.
- Legislators--Attitudes.
- Legislators.
- Political violence.
- Legislators--Violence against.
- Legislators--Violence against--Taiwan.
- Legislators--Violence against--Ukraine.
- Political violence--Taiwan.
- Political violence--Ukraine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- In 'Making Punches Count', a comprehensive account of legislative floor violence and its consequences, Emily Bacchus and Nathan Batto focus on recent episodes from a wide variety of countries, including Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, Mexico, Uganda, and others. What do cultures of legislative brawling tell us about the health of democracy in a given country? Are the brawls mere fits of passion, or is there a deeper logic at work? Bacchus and Batto argue that legislative brawls are, in fact, calculated acts that serve the interests of the legislators who engage in them. Beginning from the incentives driving lawmakers in different party systems and drawing on both signaling theory and theories of contentious politics, they develop a powerful explanation of why individual legislators choose to brawl.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Making Punches Count
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Brawls in Taiwan, in Ukraine, and around the World
- 3. An Individual Theory of Parliamentary Brawls
- 4. Who Brawls
- Appendix 4.1 Legislative Behavior Coding for Video Coverage of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan
- 5. Media and Signal Transmission
- Appendix 5.1 Media Coverage of Brawling in Taiwan-Data Collection and Analysis
- Appendix 5.2 Media Coverage of Brawling in Ukraine-Data Collection and Analysis
- 6. The Audience for Brawls
- 7. Brawling and Re-election
- 8. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 22, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-774446-X
- 0-19-774444-3
- OCLC:
- 1419447316
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