Defecting alone or splitting together? Individual and collective party switching by legislators

Kemahlıoğlu, Özge; Sayarı, Sabri

doi:10.1007/s11127-017-0433-0

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“…In the Turkish case, the personal reputation of the MP in the regional constituency may attract political parties (Ciftci, Forrest, and Tekin ). Since party switching among Turkish parliamentarians is not uncommon, particularly in times of declining party popularity (Kemahlıoglu and Sayarı ), having strong ties with the regional constituency may enhance one's career prospects significantly. Consequently, given that parliamentary activities are an important low‐cost means through which MPs can signal interest in constituency matters to establish close ties with the regional constituency (see Franklin and Norton , 197; Martin ), there are good reasons for MPs to resort to this approach to develop the “constituency servant” image.…”

Section: Theorizing the Impact Of Legislative Television On Constituementioning

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Politics of Constituency Representation and Legislative Ambition under the Glare of Camera Lights

Yıldırım

2019

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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The introduction of legislative television as a transparency initiative has been welcomed in an increasing number of democracies. The impact of television cameras on parliamentary behavior, however, has received scant attention in systems where personal vote‐earning attributes are thought to be of little importance (e.g., closed‐list proportional representation). Additionally, studies examining this relationship relied exclusively on over‐time variation in legislative behavior (i.e., before and after the introduction of television into parliament), which arguably has important deficiencies in demonstrating the true effect of legislative television. Capitalizing on a unique quasi‐experimental setting, the present study aims to close these gaps in the literature by analyzing parliamentary activities in Turkey, where the legislative television was restricted to 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) in 2011 after almost two decades of continuous 7‐day operation. Results based on original data sets of parliamentary activities from the pre‐ and postreform periods (2009–11 and 2011–13) indicate that the varying presence of television cameras exacerbated the effect of electoral and reputation‐building motivations on parliamentary behavior, encouraging electorally unsafe and junior MPs to shift their constituency focus to the televised proceedings. The results offer important implications for the study of legislative transparency and constituency representation in party‐list proportional representation systems.

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Section: Theorizing the Impact Of Legislative Television On Constituementioning

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Politics of Constituency Representation and Legislative Ambition under the Glare of Camera Lights

Yıldırım

2019

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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“…The second strategy develops a post-test-only quasi-experimental design in which the switching rate for all members of the Senate is compared over the same years (2018)(2019)(2020)(2021)(2022) with that of members of the Chamber of Deputies. As the most significant part of the reform of the Rules of Procedures of the Senate lies in a series of innovations concerning the requirements for the formation of new PPGs in the inter-electoral period, we introduce an element of novelty into our analysis by modelling not only the risk of generic party switching, but also of forming new legislative parties (Golder et al 2022;Kemahlıoglu and Sayari 2017;Volpi 2019b). Our findings indicate that anti-defection regulations failed both to limit party switching and the formation of new PPGs.…”

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Anti-defection rules and party switching in the Italian Parliament

Pinto

2023

Party Politics

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Despite considerable progress in the study of party switching, scholarly interest in institutional constraints explicitly designed to limit or penalise inter-party mobility remains limited in the literature. This paper contributes to the emerging scholarship on party switching and legal institutional constrains by assessing the effectiveness of the new anti-defection regulations introduced in the Italian Senate starting from 2018. To evaluate the impact of this intervention, we develop two quasi-experimental research approaches that take advantage of the bicameral structure of the Italian Parliament and the fact that the anti-defection regulations were only implemented in the Senate and not in the Chamber of Deputies. Our results indicate that anti-defection regulations failed both to limit inter-party mobility and the formation of new legislative parties. However, they results effective in influencing the timing of party switching, concentrating it in the phases of government formation and dissolution.

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“…Ülkemizde yazılmış az sayıda yüksek lisans ve doktora tezi ile Türk siyaset bilimcilerin uluslararası dergilerde yayımladıkları İngilizce çalışmalarında da (örn. Kentmen-Çin, 2015;Kemahlıoğlu ve Sayarı, 2017;Yıldırım, 2020) Brambor vd.nin (2006 çalışması kaynak gösterilerek, marjinal etkiler yazarların önerdiği biçimde hesaplanmakta ve yorumlanmaktadır.…”

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On the Interactive Models in Political Science Research

Moral

2022

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Interactive models have been increasingly used in social science research to assess conditional theoretical expectations and hypotheses empirically. However, the direct, indirect, and marginal effects of the constitutive terms in interactive linear and non-linear models are often erroneously calculated and interpreted. This study examines the contemporary political methodology literature pointing to various sources of such errors and presenting alternative methods to calculate marginal effects and diagnostic tools. The proposed methods and statistical tools are then examined with the help of several applied and hypothetical examples, and several essential takeaways are summarized in the concluding section. Consequently, this study aims to help Turkish scholars avoid similar errors in positing conditional expectations, testing those using quantitative methods, and interpreting their findings.

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Defecting alone or splitting together? Individual and collective party switching by legislators

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

Politics of Constituency Representation and Legislative Ambition under the Glare of Camera Lights

Politics of Constituency Representation and Legislative Ambition under the Glare of Camera Lights

Anti-defection rules and party switching in the Italian Parliament

On the Interactive Models in Political Science Research

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