Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide : Moving Outside the Electoral Arena (Paperback)

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.