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Government termination and anti-defection laws in parliamentary democracies
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A growing number of parliaments around the world have adopted anti-defection laws that protect the unity of legislative party groups as mentioned in this paper. Although they remain rare among established democracies, India,...Abstract:
A growing number of parliaments around the world have adopted anti-defection laws that protect the unity of legislative party groups. Although they remain rare among established democracies, India,...read more
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The vote of no confidence: towards a framework for analysis
Tal Lento,Reuven Y. Hazan +1 more
TL;DR: The most important instrument by which parliament can express its lack of support for the government is the vote of no confidence in the government as mentioned in this paper, which is the most important way for expressing opposition to the government.
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Parliaments and government termination: understanding the confidence relationship
Reuven Y. Hazan,Bjørn Erik Rasch +1 more
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Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy The Emergence of the Cartel Party
Richard S. Katz,Peter Mair +1 more
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Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes
TL;DR: In this article, the Second Edition of the Second edition of the book, the authors discuss the importance of electoral systems and the difficulty of choosing an electoral system in a majoritarian and proportional system.
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Parties for rent? Ambition, ideology, and party switching in Brazil's chamber of deputies
TL;DR: In this article, a model of party-membership patterns is proposed, where decisions to switch party or to stay put are a function of the strategic interaction of legislators and endogenous party leaders.
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Party Switching in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1996–2001
William B. Heller,Carol Mershon +1 more
Abstract: Almost one-fourth of the members of the lower house in Italy, the Chamber of Deputies, switched parties at least once between 1996 and 2001. Why would a legislator abandon one party and enter another during a legislative term? Starting from the basic assumption that politicians are ambitious, we examine electoral and partisan motivations for members of parliament (MPs) who switch parties. We conclude that party switching most likely is motivated by party labels that provide little information about policy goals and that pit copartisans against each other in the effort to serve constituent needs. Switching is especially frequent when ambitious politicians operate under heightened uncertainty.