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OverviewIn Making Punches Count, the first comprehensive account of legislative floor violence and its consequences, Nathan Batto and Emily Beaulieu 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. As they show, brawls are more common in younger democracies, particularly ones with high levels of corruption, but sometimes there are contextual factors that make violence an attractive strategy even to legislators in long-established democracies. Ultimately, brawls should be seen as calculated acts of political violence initiated by legislators to advance their careers. Legislators can strategically use brawling to send costly signals to the actors--both opponents and allies--who will have the most influence over their political fortunes. A genuinely novel account of why conflict can reach such extreme levels in democracies, the book also sheds light on the structural mechanisms that drive politicians to violence in settings where we least expect it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nathan F. Batto (Associate Research Fellow, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Election Study Center, National Chengchi University) , Emily Beaulieu (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of Kentucky)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780197744437ISBN 10: 0197744435 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 24 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: To order  Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Brawls in Taiwan, Ukraine, and Around the World Chapter 3: An Individual Theory of Parliamentary Brawls Chapter 4: Who Brawls Appendix 4.1: Legislative Behavior Coding for video coverage of Taiwan's legislative Yuan Chapter 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 Chapter 6: The Audience for Brawls Chapter 7: Brawling and Re-election Chapter 8: ConclusionsReviewsAuthor InformationNathan F. Batto is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, and he holds a joint appointment at the Election Study Center, National Chengchi University. He previously taught at the University of the Pacific. He has published widely on electoral and legislative politics in Taiwan. Emily Beaulieu is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. She received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego and has published books and articles on democracy and contentious politics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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