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International Journal of Political Science and Development Vol. 2(1), pp. 1 –11, January, 2014 DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2014.006 ISSN: 2360-784X Review Setting the Agenda by Early Day Motions (EDMs): The Case of the United Kingdom Parliament
Osnat Akirav
Department of Political Science, The Western Galilee College, Israel. 972-505-646031, Email: osnatak@bezeqint.net
Accepted 9 February 2014
The issue of how
agendas are set in parliaments is one that has been well researched
by scholars. They have focused their examination on two major areas,
namely seeking to understand the procedures of the relevant assembly
that allow the government and the opposition to block or delay
legislation and secondly, researching on the effectiveness of those
procedures in delaying and blocking legislation. The goal of this
study is to expand the knowledge about issue salience by using data
from Early Day Motions (EDMs) in the UK parliament, particularly in
the House of Commons, to determine how MPs set the parliamentary
agenda. The study will be conducted in the context of Tony Blair’s
third (and last) government. The study will extend Cox and McCubbins’
cartel model (Cox and McCubbins, 2005) with its concepts of agenda
power, both positive and negative, into this new area in order to
examine how MPs use EDMS to set their agenda. |
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