Exploring Party Switching in East-Central European Legislatures - Party Drifters, Mavericks, and Chameleons

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Andrzej Antoszewski is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics at the University of Wrocław, Poland.
Przemysław Żukiewicz is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Wrocław, Poland.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrzej Antoszewski, Przemysław Żukiewicz
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032824284
• ISBN: 978-1-03-282428-4
• No. of pages: 202
• Weight: 480 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Central Europe, Elections & referenda, Political parties and party platforms, Elections and referenda / suffrage