Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide : Moving Outside the Electoral Arena / Carol Mershon, Olga Shvetsova.
Mershon, Carol| Call Number | 328.3/69 |
| Author | Mershon, Carol, author. |
| Title | Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide : Moving Outside the Electoral Arena / Carol Mershon, Olga Shvetsova. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The phenomenon of party and party system change -- How parliamentary party system change matters for policy -- Why and how individual incumbents change legislative party systems -- Legislators' pursuit of benefits and legislative party system change -- Avoidance of electoral costs and stability in parliamentary parties -- Setting up the analysis of one hundred and ten parliaments -- Institutional inducements and preference-based deterrents to legislative party system change -- Comparative statistics : where our assumptions may not apply -- Conclusions -- Parliamentary records -- Newspapers and periodicals -- Other primary and secondary sources -- Appendixes -- Author Index -- Subject index. |
| Summary | In this book, Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova explore one of the central questions in democratic politics: 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? Mershon and Shvetsova's theory focuses on the choices of party membership made by legislators while serving in office. It identifies the inducements and impediments to legislators' changes of partisan affiliation, and integrates strategic and institutional approaches to the study of parties and party systems. With empirical analyses comparing nine countries that differ in electoral laws, territorial governance and executive-legislative relations, Mershon and Shvetsova find that strategic incumbents have the capacity to reconfigure the party system as established in elections. Representatives are motivated to bring about change by opportunities arising during the parliamentary term, and are deterred from doing so by the elemental democratic practice of elections. |
| Added Author | Shvetsova, Olga author. |
| Subject | Party affiliation Cross-cultural studies. Political parties Cross-cultural studies. Legislators Cross-cultural studies. Legislative bodies Cross-cultural studies. |
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| Summary | In this book, Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova explore one of the central questions in democratic politics: 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? Mershon and Shvetsova's theory focuses on the choices of party membership made by legislators while serving in office. It identifies the inducements and impediments to legislators' changes of partisan affiliation, and integrates strategic and institutional approaches to the study of parties and party systems. With empirical analyses comparing nine countries that differ in electoral laws, territorial governance and executive-legislative relations, Mershon and Shvetsova find that strategic incumbents have the capacity to reconfigure the party system as established in elections. Representatives are motivated to bring about change by opportunities arising during the parliamentary term, and are deterred from doing so by the elemental democratic practice of elections. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The phenomenon of party and party system change -- How parliamentary party system change matters for policy -- Why and how individual incumbents change legislative party systems -- Legislators' pursuit of benefits and legislative party system change -- Avoidance of electoral costs and stability in parliamentary parties -- Setting up the analysis of one hundred and ten parliaments -- Institutional inducements and preference-based deterrents to legislative party system change -- Comparative statistics : where our assumptions may not apply -- Conclusions -- Parliamentary records -- Newspapers and periodicals -- Other primary and secondary sources -- Appendixes -- Author Index -- Subject index. |
| Subject | Party affiliation Cross-cultural studies. Political parties Cross-cultural studies. Legislators Cross-cultural studies. Legislative bodies Cross-cultural studies. |
| Multimedia |