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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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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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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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Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies

Party Politics, 2022
Donghyun Danny Choi   +2 more
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Party Switching in the Canadian House of Commons

2015
This thesis seeks to explain the phenomenon of party switching (or floor-crossing) in the understudied case of the Canadian House of Commons. It uses Müller and Strøm’s “Policy, Office or Votes?” framework at the individual level of analysis and a mixed methods approach that combines document analysis and econometrics to assess the effects of ...
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