Party system change in legislatures worldwide : moving outside the electoral arena / Carol Mershon, Olga Shvetsova.
"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 theo...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part one. The prospect of party system change between elections
- 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
- Part two. Discerning mechanisms through case studies
- Legislators' pursuit of benefits and legislative party system change
- Avoidance of electoral costs and stability in parliamentary parties
- Part three. Generalizing in a broader empirical setting
- 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
- Bibliography
- Parliamentary records
- Newspapers and periodicals
- Other primary and secondary sources
- Appendixes
- Author Index
- Subject index.