Exploring Party Switching in East-Central European Legislatures

Party Drifters, Mavericks, and Chameleons
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-82428-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems

This book challenges the approach of relying on election outcomes to analyse party systems, contending that changes can be also identified and documented beyond the scope of parliamentary elections through legislative party switching.

It argues that significant party system changes occur often within parliamentary terms, and legislative party switching is not a pathological feature of democracy but rather an integral component of democratic party systems. Offering a comprehensive and specific theoretical framework for party switching and based on a novel and exhaustive database from Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Poland, this book examines the determinants for, and implications of, legislative party switching in Central and Eastern Europe.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of legislative studies, party politics, Central and East European politics, and more broadly comparative politics and government.

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Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Antoszewski, Andrzej

&

Zukiewicz, Przemyslaw

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  PART 1: Party switching - A short introduction  1. Puzzles of party switching  2. Determinants of party switching  3. Party switching and party system change  PART 2: Legislative party switching in East Central Europe - An analysis  4. Measuring legislative party switching  5. Legislative party switching at factional and parliamentary levels  6. Grey zone of legislative party switching.  Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Andrzej Antoszewski is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Przemyslaw Zukiewicz is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.