In democracies, power is obtained via competition. Yet, as women gain access to
parliaments in record numbers, worldwide collaboration appears to be on the rise. This is …

Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as
Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents, legislators in" patronage …

Party switching among legislative candidates has important implications for accountability
and representation in democratizing countries. We argue that party switching is influenced …

Theories often explain intraparty competition based on electoral conditions and intraparty
rules. This article further opens this black box by considering intraparty statements of …

While pre-electoral coalitions have important effects on the functioning of democracy, their
formation has only been systematically examined in the context of established democracies …

While parties in many new democracies frequently split, merge, change labels, and make
and break electoral alliances, comparative systematic research on how these changes are …

Numerous new parties have emerged since voters became less loyal to established political
parties. A number of these survived and have been analysed intensely, especially green …

Building on agency-theoretical perspectives of public bureaucracies, we argue that politician–
bureaucrat preference alignment can have important implications for bureaucrats' pay. We …

Legislative candidates and elected legislators can and sometimes do change official party
affiliation—that is, switch. 1 Whereas legislative party switching is rare in some contexts (eg …

The phenomenon of legislative party switching has attracted considerable attention among
scholars. Studies show that parties are likely to experience defections if they are unable to …