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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 ...
Christof Hartmann, Martin Goeke
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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   +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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