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100	1		_aMershon, Carol _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe microfoundations of party system stability in legislatures/ _ccreated by Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova
264	1		_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
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337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440			_aJournal of politics _vVolume 75, number 4
520	3		_aWhat sustains stability in legislative party systems between elections? This question commands attention given the potential for change highlighted in recent work on legislative party switching. In addressing the question, this article echoes a prominent theme in research on legislatures, parties, and party systems: the importance of the party label. The novelty here is the treatment of the individual legislator’s need for manifest loyalty to the status quo party label as the chief constraint that deters incumbents from switching and underpins stability in legislative party systems. Our theory focuses on the value of stable party affiliations to voters and thus to incumbents as well. We extract testable implications and assess hypotheses against an original cross-national dataset of over 4,300 monthly observations of MP behavior in 116 legislative terms. We find that the temporal proximity to elections deters MPs’ moves. This electoral deterrent acquires particular force under candidate-centered electoral systems
650			_aPolitical economy _vPolitics and international relations _xComparative politics
700			_aShvetsova, Olga _eco author
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381613000716
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