Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching

✍ Scribed by William B. Heller, Carol Mershon (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 316
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Legislative Party Switching, Parties, and Party Systems....Pages 3-28
Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Models of Party Switching....Pages 29-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Switching Equilibria....Pages 55-79
Party Switching and the Procedural Party Agenda in the US House of Representatives....Pages 81-108
Party Switching in Brazil: Causes, Effects, and Representation....Pages 109-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Party Group Switching in the European Parliament....Pages 147-172
Legislator Preferences, Party Desires: The Impact of Party Switching on Legislative Party Positions....Pages 173-199
Timing Matters: Incentives for Party Switching and Stages of Parliamentary Cycles....Pages 201-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Competition for Power: Party Switching and Party System Change in Japan....Pages 233-263
Party Switching, Party Systems, and Political Representation....Pages 265-285
Conclusions....Pages 287-293
Back Matter....Pages 295-316

✦ Subjects

Political History; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Political Science

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