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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; pt. one: The prospect of party system change between elections; 1. The phenomenon of party and party system change; 1.1. Approaches to analyzing change in parties and party systems; 1.1.1. Change in the number and position of parties as emanating from the electoral arena; 1.1.2. Change in competition for the executive; 1.1.3. New attention to change in legislative parties; 1.2. The possibility and reality of party system change between elections; 1.3. The argument in brief; 1.4. The map of the book. |
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2. How parliamentary party system change matters for policy; 2.1. Legislative coalitions and policy; 2.1.1. Legislative parties as coalitions of incumbents; 2.1.2. Legislative majority coalitions and executive coalitions; 2.1.3. The core, policy choice, and changing the status quo; 2.2. Manipulating the core: the power of interparty moves; 2.3. Tectonic shifts out of party moves: empirical illustrations; 2.3.1. Two-party system: U.S. House; 2.3.2. Two-party system: U.S. Senate; 2.3.3. Four-party system: Canadian House; 2.3.4. Five sizable and many minor parties: Italian Chamber; 2.4. Conclusion. |
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3 Why and how individual incumbents change legislative party systems; 3.1. An integrated model of inducements and deterrents to changes of affiliation among individual incumbents; 3.1.1. Inducements to changing parties in the utility functionof incumbent i; 3.1.2. The incumbent's time-contingent choice and the parliamentary cycle; 3.1.3. The electoral value of stable party labels; 3.1.4. Voters' calculus: agency risks and rewards for partisan constancy; 3.1.5. Unified analysis of the calculations of politicians and voters. |
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3.2. Testable implications: inducements, deterrents, and the timing of interparty moves; 3.3. Research design; 3.4. Conclusion -- pt. two: Discerning mechanisms through case studies; 4. Legislators' pursuit of benefits and legislative party system change; 4.1. Revisiting the parliamentary cycle; 4.1.1. Operationalizing stages of the parliamentary cycle; 4.1.2. Elaborating the hypothesis on timing moves to seize gains; 4.2. Inducements at the granular level: 1996-2001 Italy and 1993-1995 Russia; 4.2.1. Rationale for selection of two primary in-depth terms. |
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4.2.2. Variations in incumbent changes of party across aggregated stages; 4.2.3. MP interparty mobility disaggregated by substage; 4.3. Enlarging the view: MP interparty mobility by stage; 4.4. The formation of new parliamentary parties; 4.5. Conclusion; 5. Avoidance of electoral costs and stability in parliamentary parties; 5.1. Revisiting the logic on incumbent avoidance of electoral costs; 5.2. The closest scrutiny of deterrents to changing party: 1996-2001 Italy and 1993-1995 Russia; 5.2.1. A first look at the timing of interparty moves relative to elections. |
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5.2.2. Timing and limiting moves: comparisons across groups of MPs. |
| Summary |
How much autonomy do elected politicians have to shape and reshape the party system on their own, without the direct involvement of voters in elections? |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Party affiliation -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Party affiliation. |
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Political parties -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Political parties. |
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Legislators -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Legislators. |
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Legislative bodies -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Legislative bodies. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shvetsova, Olga (Olga Vitalievna)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mershon, Carol. Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide : Moving Outside the Electoral Arena. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2013 9780521765831 |
| ISBN |
9781107249806 (electronic book) |
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1107249805 (electronic book) |
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9780511982903 (electronic book) |
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0511982909 (electronic book) |
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9781107248144 (e-book) |
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1107248140 (e-book) |
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9781107247314 |
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1107247314 |
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9780521765831 |
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0521765838 |
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