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The regulation of party switching in Africa

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2011
The article presents a complete overview of existing regulations of party switching in Africa since the reintroduction of multiparty politics in the early 1990s. While most established democracies do not see any reason for sanctioning with legal restrictions the decision of members of parliament to change their party affiliation, in Africa many ...
Goeke, Martin, Hartmann, Christof
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Legislative Party Switching and Executive Coalitions

Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008
AbstractIn parliamentary systems, legislative parties are the building blocks for executive coalitions. A standard assumption in the large literature on coalition politics is that legislative parties form fixed units from one election to the next. Under some conditions, however, this assumption falls flat.
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Parliamentary Cycles and Party Switching in Legislatures

Comparative Political Studies, 2007
This article examines politicians' changes of party labels during the life of a legislature. The authors view a legislator's choice of party as a strategic decision recurring throughout the parliamentary cycle. In their approach, individuals are open to switching parties as they pursue goals specific to the stage in the parliamentary cycle.
Carol Mershon, Olga Shvetsova
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A Cross‐National Analysis of Party Switching

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2013
Though instances of party switching have been widely documented, there is little cross‐national research on this phenomenon. The prevalence of switching is therefore unknown, and the factors influencing this behavior remain unclear. Using the most comprehensive dataset on party switching ever constructed, we illustrate both that interparty movement is ...
Diana Z. O'brien, Yael Shomer
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Do Abortion Attitudes Lead to Party Switching?

Political Research Quarterly, 2008
The notion that issues and ideology can move partisanship remains controversial. The authors explore the stronger claim that issues can lead people to switch political parties and whether the effect of abortion attitudes is asymmetrical (i.e., abortion attitudes may influence party switching in only one direction). They show that in several short-term
Mitchell Killian, Clyde Wilcox
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Competition for Power: Party Switching and Party System Change in Japan

2009
The reasons that individual legislators change their party affiliations are as varied as the goals they hold dear. Primary among them are electoral, office, and policy considerations. The payoffs from party switching are closely linked to electoral and party systems, as well as the dynamics of party competition.
Junko Kato, Kentaro Yamamoto
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Anatomy of Party Sorting: Partisan Polarization of Voters and Party Switching

Politics & Policy, 2019
Scholars explain that the ideological divide among the political elites has heightened the homogeneity in voters' ideology within parties, thereby resulting in the appearance of ideological polarization in the American electorate today. This article postulates and tests four modes of party sorting in the United States based upon: (1) if partisan voters
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The Ballot as a Party-System Switch

Party Politics, 2005
Diverging from the generally accepted argument that Australian ballot adoption in the USA was the work of anti-party forces, this article revitalizes Key's taxonomy of the political party and advances the argument that the merger of party organization and party-in-government interests in part led to adoption of the ballot and facilitated the 1896 ...
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Party Group Switching in the European Parliament

2009
Party politics in the European Union (EU) is characterized by competition at two different levels. At the national level, political parties contest national, regional, and local elections. At a transnational level, national parties also compete in elections, for seats in the European Parliament (EP), the legislative body of the EU.
McElroy, Gail, BENOIT, Kenneth
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The personal vote and legislative party switching

Party Politics, 2016
How do electoral rules affect the occurrence of legislative party switching? Existing research addressing this question is limited and does not reach a consistent conclusion. This article argues that electoral systems that encourage politicians to cultivate a personal vote dampen parties’ ability to retain members.
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