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?
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?
Carol Mershon is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. She received her PhD in Political Science, with distinction, from Yale University. She has taught at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Lille, served as political science program director at the National Science Foundation, and is a former president of the American Political Science Association's Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society. Mershon's articles have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies and the Journal of Politics, among others. She is the author of The Costs of Coalition (2002) and the co-editor of Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching (2009). The recipient of two awards from the National Science Foundation, Mershon has also held two Fulbright grants and a Social Science Research Council Fellowship.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. The Prospect of Party-System Change between Elections: 1. The phenomenon of party and party-system change; 2. How parliamentary party-system change matters for policy; 3. Why and how individual incumbents change legislative party systems; Part II. Discerning Mechanisms through Case Studies: 4. Legislators' pursuit of benefits and legislative party-system change; 5. Avoidance of electoral costs and stability in parliamentary parties; Part III. Generalizing in a Broader Empirical Setting: 6. Setting up the analysis of 110 parliaments; 7. Institutional inducements and preference-based deterrents to legislative party-system change; 8. Comparative statics: where our assumptions may not apply; 9. Conclusions.
Part I. The Prospect of Party-System Change between Elections: 1. The phenomenon of party and party-system change; 2. How parliamentary party-system change matters for policy; 3. Why and how individual incumbents change legislative party systems; Part II. Discerning Mechanisms through Case Studies: 4. Legislators' pursuit of benefits and legislative party-system change; 5. Avoidance of electoral costs and stability in parliamentary parties; Part III. Generalizing in a Broader Empirical Setting: 6. Setting up the analysis of 110 parliaments; 7. Institutional inducements and preference-based deterrents to legislative party-system change; 8. Comparative statics: where our assumptions may not apply; 9. Conclusions.
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