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

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Andrzej Antoszewski (University of Wrocław, Poland) Przemysław Żukiewicz (University of Wrocław, Poland)

Exploring Party Switching in East-Central European Legislatures

Party Drifters, Mavericks, and Chameleons

Andrzej Antoszewski (University of Wrocław, Poland), Przemysław Żukiewicz (University of Wrocław, Poland)

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Routledge
12 September 2024

Elections & referenda; Political parties

Series: Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems

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.

It argues that significant party system changes occur often within parliamentary terms, and legislative party switching is not a pathological feature of democracy but rather an integral component of democratic party systems. Offering a comprehensive and specific theoretical framework for party switching and based on a novel and exhaustive database from Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Poland, the book examines the determinants for, and implications of, legislative party switching in Central and Eastern Europe.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of legislative studies, party politics, Central and East European Politics and more broadly to comparative politics and government.

By: Andrzej Antoszewski (University of Wrocław Poland), Przemysław Żukiewicz (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032824284
ISBN 10: 103282428X
Series: Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 12 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.