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Defection From Parties

Defection From Parties is a political science construct that denotes the formal act of a party member severing affiliation with their original political party to join or support another, typically through legislative realignment or public declaration, thereby altering the internal balance of power and legislative dynamics within a parliamentary or electoral system.

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1.2K

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42

Authors

29

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2017–2026

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Variants

Party Defection

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Publications

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To defect or not to defect? National, institutional and party group pressures on MEPs and their consequences for party group cohesion in the European Parliament

Thorsten Faas · European Journal of Political Research · 2003 · 171 citations

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The Role of Parties' Past Behavior in Coalition Formation

Margit Tavits · American Political Science Review · 2008 · 150 citations

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Bargaining and Constitutional Contracts

Douglas D. Heckathorn, Steven M. Maser · American Journal of Political Science · 1987 · 83 citations

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Why Do Tories Defect to UKIP? Conservative Party Members and the Temptations of the Populist Radical Right

Paul Webb, Tim Bale · Political Studies · 2014 · 77 citations · Full text

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Anatomy of a split: The Liberal Democrats of Japan

Gary W. Cox, Frances Rosenbluth · Electoral Studies · 1995 · 69 citations · Full text

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Authors

42

  1. CW
    Chin-Huat Wong

    RCSI & UCD Malaysia Campus, Malaysia

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  2. ES
    Ellis S. Krauss

    University of California San Diego, United States

    1 publications · 33 citations

    1

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  3. EC
    Emanuel Coman

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    1 publications · 57 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. EH
    Enrique Hernández

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

    1 publications · 53 citations

    1

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  5. TF
    Thorsten Faas

    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

    1 publications · 171 citations

    1

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Institutions

29

  1. University of Bamberg

    Bamberg, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    220 citations

  2. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    135 citations

  3. University of Geneva

    Geneva, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  4. Queen Mary University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    77 citations

  5. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    22 citations

  6. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

  7. University of Virginia

    Charlottesville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  8. Goethe University Frankfurt

    Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    30 citations

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Venues

  1. Party Politics

    4 publications · 136 citations

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  2. Legislative Studies Quarterly

    3 publications · 102 citations

    3

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  3. European Journal of Political Research

    3 publications · 212 citations

    3

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  4. American Political Science Review

    3 publications · 240 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. Japanese Journal of Political Science

    1 publications · 11 citations

    1

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