TY - BOOK ID - 146593858 TI - Making punches count : the individual logic of legislative brawls AU - Bacchus, Emily Beaulieu AU - Batto, Nathan F. PY - 2024 SN - 0197744443 019774446X PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political violence. KW - Legislators KW - Political violence KW - Political atrocities KW - Legislative violence KW - Violence against. KW - Violence against KW - Social aspects. KW - Legislative bodies. KW - Parliamentary practice. KW - Politics and Government. KW - Politics & government. KW - Attitudes. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146593858 AB - 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. ER -