MPs Roles and Representation

This book examines the content of MPs' activities through which parliamentarians generate representative claims.

Autorentext

Federico Russo is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Salento, Italy.

Klappentext

This book examines the content of MPs' activities through which parliamentarians generate representative claims.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. The concept of representative role 2. The claimed role, between attitudes and strategies 3. Measuring MPs' claimed role through their parliamentary activities 4. Areal focus of representation 5. Sectoral focus of representation and issue specialisation 6. Type of responsiveness. Conclusion