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020			_a9780511982903 (ebook)
020			_z9780521765831 (hardback)
020			_z9781107569607 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aJF2071 _b.M47 2013
082	0	0	_a328.3/69 _223
100	1		_aMershon, Carol, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aParty System Change in Legislatures Worldwide : _bMoving Outside the Electoral Arena / _cCarol Mershon, Olga Shvetsova.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (240 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aIn this book, Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova explore one of the central questions in democratic politics: 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? Mershon and Shvetsova's theory focuses on the choices of party membership made by legislators while serving in office. It identifies the inducements and impediments to legislators' changes of partisan affiliation, and integrates strategic and institutional approaches to the study of parties and party systems. With empirical analyses comparing nine countries that differ in electoral laws, territorial governance and executive-legislative relations, Mershon and Shvetsova find that strategic incumbents have the capacity to reconfigure the party system as established in elections. Representatives are motivated to bring about change by opportunities arising during the parliamentary term, and are deterred from doing so by the elemental democratic practice of elections.
700	1		_aShvetsova, Olga, _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521765831
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511982903
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37529 _d37529