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Maximum entropy models for brand switching behavior and party switching behavior

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Profiles in party switching: The case of Southern Party activists

Social Science Quarterly, 2021
ABSTRACTObjectiveWe examine the demographic profiles of southern county‐level activists, who switched parties to see how they may differ from other activists affiliated with the party they converted to.MethodsWith data from the 1991–92 and 2001 Southern Grassroots Party Activists (SGPA) projects, we use descriptive and multivariate analysis to ...
Seth C. McKee, Antoine Yoshinaka
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Introduction: Legislative Party Switching, Parties, and Party Systems

2009
That political parties are fundamental to the functioning of modern democracies is well known. Politicians build their careers within parties, parties convey information to voters about candidate preferences, and parties provide labels that identify candidates to voters.
William B. Heller, Carol Mershon
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Party Switching, Party Systems, and Political Representation

2009
The literature on parties and party systems assumes that electoral competition and intraparty policy deliberations are the two primary mechanisms for making parties responsive to public opinion. By implication, this suggests that little else happens between elections to keep politicians responsive to voters. The recent work on party switching, however,
Marcus Kreuzer, Vello Pettai
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Party On? Politicians and Party Switching in Mexico

Politics, 2007
The breakdown of Mexico's hegemonic party system raises questions about the nature of the new system and of the prospects of consolidating Mexican democracy. The concern addressed in this article is that, at the very same time that democratisation has made Mexicans' electoral choices more significant, frequently changing party allegiances among ...
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Electoral regimes and party-switching

Party Politics, 2011
This article presents an inquiry into the causes of party-switching under two different electoral regimes. It exploits a natural experiment in South Africa, where a large number of local legislatures are elected using the same mixed system, to examine how the party-switching behaviours of legislators elected under proportional representation (PR ...
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Switching Parties in a Collaboration at Run-Time

2014 IEEE 18th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2014
During the execution of a service collaboration, a party may drop out for technical reasons or business reasons. In that case, that party must be replaced in the collaboration, at run-time, by a new party. Ideally, the new party can pick up where the old party left.
Pourmirza, S., Dijkman, R.M., Grefen, P.W.P.J.   +2 more
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Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching

2009
Preface List of Tables and Figures PART I:THE IMPORTANCE OF PARTY SWITCHING Introduction: Legislative Party Switching, Parties, and Party Systems W.B.Heller & C.Mershon Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Models of Party Switching W.B.Heller & C.Mershon PART II: PARTY SWITCHING AND REPRESENTATION Switching Equilibria N.Schofield Party Switching and ...
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Party convergence and vote switching: Explaining mainstream party decline across Europe

European Journal of Political Research, 2019
AbstractHow can one explain the significant vote losses of mainstream parties across Europe in recent years? In this article, it is argued that mainstream party convergence is an important determinant of the recent political and electoral volatility in European party systems.
JAE‐JAE SPOON, HEIKE KLÜVER
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Legislator Preferences, Party Desires: The Impact of Party Switching on Legislative Party Positions

2009
Democratic politics and political parties go hand in hand. Politicians win elections and hold office as members of parties (Epstein 1967). For their part, political parties organize legislatures and manage the passage of policy (Aldrich 1995; Cox and McCubbins 1993; 2005). Legislators’ political identities are tightly linked to their party affiliations,
William B. Heller, Carol Mershon
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