Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching

I. The Importance of Party Switching

1. Introduction: Legislative Party Switching, Parties, and Party Systems
William B. Heller, Carol Mershon

2. Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Models of Party Switching
William B. Heller, Carol Mershon

II. Party Switching and Representation

3. Switching Equilibria
Norman Schofield

4. Party Switching and the Procedural Party Agenda in the US House of Representatives
Timothy P. Nokken

5. Party Switching in Brazil: Causes, Effects, and Representation
Scott Desposato

III. Party Switching, Party Competition, and Policy Making

6. Party Group Switching in the European Parliament
Gail McElroy, Kenneth Benoit

7. Legislator Preferences, Party Desires: The Impact of Party Switching on Legislative Party Positions
William B. Heller, Carol Mershon

8. Timing Matters: Incentives for Party Switching and Stages of Parliamentary Cycles
Carol Mershon, Olga Shvetsova

IV. Party Switching and the Dynamics of Party Systems

9. Competition for Power: Party Switching and Party System Change in Japan
Junko Kato, Kentaro Yamamoto

10. Party Switching, Party Systems, and Political Representation
Marcus Kreuzer, Vello Pettai

11. Conclusions
William B. Heller, Carol Mershon

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Political History, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Science