Revised throughout, the second edition of this comprehensive and highly respected
textbook continues to provide a thorough introduction to European and European Union …

Using expert survey data covering the 2001–13 period, this article investigates the changing
shape and structure of the Italian policy space over time, as well as parties' shifting policy …

Party switching can pose a severe threat to party unity and deepen internal party division. To
date, research on party switching has either focused on the individual motivations for …

The personalization of politics is one of the most important political phenomena of our time.
Following the decline of traditional party government, various political systems have seen a …

Why are certain Members of Parliament (MPs) more likely to get re-candidacy for national
legislative elections, therefore having the possibility to continue their career? This article …

In this study, we look at committee assignment by focusing on the extent to which MPs'
desires to become members of certain committees are fulfilled. Our theoretical argument is …

Despite considerable progress in the study of party switching, scholarly interest in
institutional constraints explicitly designed to limit or penalise inter-party mobility remains …

Compared to other aspects of agenda control, the organisation of legislative calendars has
received scarce scholarly attention. However, setting the floor timetable affects parliament's …

When legislators switch parties between elections this may be viewed as undemocratic
since, bypassing voters, they are changing the outcomes of elections. Do electoral …

Party switching has received considerable attention in academic literature in recent years,
especially in Brazil. Surprisingly, however, very little is known about the reasons why …