Party discipline

Party discipline is a system of political norms, rules and subsequent respective consequences for deviance that are designed to ensure the relative cohesion of members of the respective party group.[1] In political parties specifically (often referred to as the caucus or parliamentary parties), the essential purpose of party discipline is to get all its parliamentary members to maintain the party line and vote in support of policies agreed to by a majority of the parliamentary members (or of the party leadership).[2]

  1. ^ Marland, Alex (2020). Whipped: Party Discipline in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press. ISBN 978-0774864961.
  2. ^ Curto-Grau, Marta; Zudenkova, Galina (1 August 2018). "Party discipline and government spending: Theory and evidence". Journal of Public Economics. 164: 139–152. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.05.008. hdl:2445/124367. ISSN 0047-2727. S2CID 157651338.

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