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Tunkis, Peter Jan.

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Strength in Numbers: Social Identity, Political Ambition, and Group-based Legislative Party Switching.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Strength in Numbers: Social Identity, Political Ambition, and Group-based Legislative Party Switching./
Author:	Tunkis, Peter Jan.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-04A(E).
Subject:	European studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=11013070
ISBN:	9780438668805

Strength in Numbers: Social Identity, Political Ambition, and Group-based Legislative Party Switching.
Tunkis, Peter Jan.

Strength in Numbers: Social Identity, Political Ambition, and Group-based Legislative Party Switching. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 227 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2018.

Party switching, or changing one's political party affiliation, is a surprisingly widespread and persistent phenomenon among members of parliament (MPs) in old and new democracies alike. Switching gives voters the impression of a lack of legislator accountability and representation, and may indicate weak parties or government instability. Why do some MPs risk their careers, prestige, and chances of reelection for oftentimes uncertain payoffs? Extant research on party switching frames this behavior as an individual phenomenon, based on rational calculations to further goals of vote, office, or policy-seeking. Yet in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, I find that party switching is largely a group phenomenon, which has heretofore received little attention. Building upon established research on political parties, party systems, and legislator behavior, I develop a theory of group-based defection that addresses this gap in the literature. I argue that MPs pursue political ambition in groups in which they share political goals---the pursuit of collective ambition is thus an alternative means to achieving their objectives. These groups are formed around, or defined by, social identities that are common or shared among individual MPs. By switching political parties as part of a group, individual MPs are able to more effectively pursue their political ambition.

ISBN: 9780438668805Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168420
European studies.

Strength in Numbers: Social Identity, Political Ambition, and Group-based Legislative Party Switching.
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