Antoine Yoshinaka

Crossing the Aisle

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first-ever systematic study of causes and consequences of elite party switching in the US.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9781107115897
• ISBN-10: 1107115892
• Artikelnr.: 43491565

Autorenporträt

Antoine Yoshinaka is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is the author of several scholarly articles on elections, legislatures, and parties in the US context and around the world. He co-published Establishing the Rules of the Game: Election Laws in Democracies (2004), a thorough treatment of six critical dimensions of election laws in over sixty democracies. He was the recipient of the 2007-8 Congressional Research Award from the Dirksen Center and of the 2001 Malcolm Jewell Award from the Southern Political Science Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Legislative party switching in the United States: an introduction
2. Party switching: a theoretical framework
Part II: 3. Why do members of Congress switch parties?
4. Progressive ambition and party switching: testing the model on state legislators
Part III: 5. The electoral consequences of party switching among members of Congress
6. The benefits of party switching: intrainstitutional advancement and the committee assignment process
Part IV: 7. Behind the scenes: the role of party leaders, rank-and-file members, and former party switchers
8. A 'real-time' look into the decision to cross the aisle
9. Conclusion.