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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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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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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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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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Party Switching in Israel: Understanding the Split of the Labor Party in 2011

Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 2019
In January 2011, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak issued a surprising announcement to take four other members of his Labor Party’s Knesset faction with himself to set up a new political party, Haatzmaut (Independence). The conditions under which this split took place illustrate the ways in which the Israeli anti-defection law, passed in the ...
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An initial look into party switching in Africa

Party Politics, 2012
What keeps politicians together in a political party? Shared ideologies and policy goals go far towards answering that question in established democracies, but in Africa political parties hardly differ from each other in their policy programmes. This leaves party cohesion as an open question.
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The Costs and Benefits of Party Switching in Mexico

Latin American Politics and Society, 2017
AbstractAre party switchers successful at furthering their careers? Most research on party switching focuses on the decision to switch and with which party to affiliate. Less attention is paid to the costs and benefits of switching parties. Moreover, previous research examining the electoral success of party switchers has often ignored how costs vary ...
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Party Switching and the Procedural Party Agenda in the US House of Representatives

2009
The importance of party affiliation in the United States may seem difficult to establish. Legislative parties in the United States are rather loose confederations of individuals who share a common party label but lack the discipline and uniformly high levels of party cohesion of their counterparts in many parliamentary systems.
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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. The greater incentives to cultivate a
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Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies

Party Politics, 2022
Donghyun Danny Choi, Melanie Phillips, Lise Rakner   +2 more
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