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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) rules
Eric McLaughlin
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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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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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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.
Shaya Pourmirza, Remco M. Dijkman, Paul W. P. J. Grefen   +2 more
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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 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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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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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 Switching, Authoritarianism, and Dogmatism in the 1964 Election

Psychological Reports, 1966
Postulating that primary group identification is stronger than ideology, it was predicted that there would be no differences on the California F Scale or the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale between supporters of Goldwater and Johnson or a great amount of party switching and that those who switched would have higher mean scores on both scales than those who did
B, Zippel, R D, Norman
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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 party-
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