Add to ORKGUsing a strategic politician model, I argue that we should be able to predict when legislators are going to switch parties by weighing the costs and benefits of party switching under different circumstances. Using variables that measure electoral risk and opportunities for advancement to higher office, an event history model is used to predict when individual legislators will switch. Although this is a rare occurrence, and electoral risk seems to play little in the decision to switch parties, we do find that opportunities for advancement and the relative power of the two parties (measured by offices held) has a noticeable effect on the phenomenon
The purpose of this dissertation is to explain observed rates of party unity on roll-call voting in ...
Legislators and legislative parties must strike a balance between collective and member-level goals....
Very little research has investigated how a two-stage electoral process (a primary election to nomin...
In recent years, numerous congressional scholars have found that political parties matter to members...
Party switching among legislative candidates has important implications for accountability and repre...
Existing research on when legislators switch parties reports inconsistent results about motivations ...
For half of the states and almost every territory in the United States, legislative vacancies are fi...
For half of the states and almost every territory in the United States, legislative vacancies are fi...
When legislators switch parties between elections this may be viewed as undemocratic since, bypassin...
What are the electoral consequences of switching parties for incumbent members of Congress? Do incum...
Between 1992 and 2012, nearly 170 Southern state legislators switched from the Democratic to the Rep...
Congressional roll-call votes are often used to investigate legislative voting behavior. To depict ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to explain observed rates of party unity on roll-call voting in ...
What effect do political parties and the system in which they function have on the amount of elector...
What effect do political parties and the system in which they function have on the amount of elector...
The purpose of this dissertation is to explain observed rates of party unity on roll-call voting in ...
Legislators and legislative parties must strike a balance between collective and member-level goals....
Very little research has investigated how a two-stage electoral process (a primary election to nomin...
In recent years, numerous congressional scholars have found that political parties matter to members...
Party switching among legislative candidates has important implications for accountability and repre...
Existing research on when legislators switch parties reports inconsistent results about motivations ...
For half of the states and almost every territory in the United States, legislative vacancies are fi...
For half of the states and almost every territory in the United States, legislative vacancies are fi...
When legislators switch parties between elections this may be viewed as undemocratic since, bypassin...
What are the electoral consequences of switching parties for incumbent members of Congress? Do incum...
Between 1992 and 2012, nearly 170 Southern state legislators switched from the Democratic to the Rep...
Congressional roll-call votes are often used to investigate legislative voting behavior. To depict ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to explain observed rates of party unity on roll-call voting in ...
What effect do political parties and the system in which they function have on the amount of elector...
What effect do political parties and the system in which they function have on the amount of elector...
The purpose of this dissertation is to explain observed rates of party unity on roll-call voting in ...
Legislators and legislative parties must strike a balance between collective and member-level goals....
Very little research has investigated how a two-stage electoral process (a primary election to nomin...