Crossing the Floor: Defection and the New Labour phenomenon
Ben Bradley
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Crossing the Floor: Defection and the New Labour phenomenon

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This book uses the work of Castle and Fett (2000) and Richard J Fenno (1873) to compare defection in the US political system with crossing the floor by MPs in UK Parliament between 1994-2010, when New Labour were a dominant force. It first explains these authors' suggestion that US Congressmen move for career based reasons rather than political ones, before looking at examples from British history and three case studies from the New Labour era. These case studies are Alan Howarth, Shaun Woodward and Quentin Davies. Based on personal interviews with these three switchers, along with the histori...