Making Punches Count

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Making Punches Count is written by Nathan F. Batto and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197744443 (ISBN 10) and 9780197744444 (ISBN 13).

"This book seeks to explain why individual legislators engage in parliamentary brawls. In addition to extensive description of this phenomenon, we offer a political theory of brawling that draws on the logic of contentious politics and signalling theory to explain why individual legislators might brawl in an attempt to further their political careers. We argue that individuals make brawling decisions in a specific institutional context, where the strength of political parties is particularly important for determining the brawler's audience. With research drawn from Taiwan and Ukraine, book chapters follow major implications of our theory including identifying who brawls, establishing that brawling is covered by the media, offering evidence of the audience for brawls, and finally evaluating re-election prospects of brawling legislators. While the bulk of our theory and evidence focus on instances of brawling when opposition parties disrupt, we also discuss a smaller but impactful subset of brawls that we call honor brawls"--