Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching

2009 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Party Switching

scholarly journals In the absence of values and ideologies, Party-switching in Nigeria is inevitable.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Mogaji
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Brand Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Party Switching ◽  
Political Scene ◽  
Focus Point ◽  
At Will

<p>This paper aims to explore the absence of values and ideologies within the political parties and how it contributes towards party switching, using the Nigerian political scene as a focus point. The personal values and ideologies of individual politicians was questioned as well. This paper further postulated that the neither the Nigerian politicians nor the political parties have values and ideologies they stand for. Not surprising there cannot be any alignment and politicians able to switch their party at will. They are not principled to stand for something that does not exists. Moving on beyond the 2019 election in Nigeria, the paper offers practical insights into brand identity development for political parties, especially the new ones.</p>

scholarly journals Transfuguismo parlamentario en Guatemala: un caso de altos costos de asociación, monopolio partidario y bajos costos de transacción

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Fortin
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Central American ◽  
High Association ◽  
Collective Goods ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
El Alto ◽  
The Common ◽  
Party Switching

RESUMEN: A diferencia del resto de países en Centroamérica, el alto índice de transfuguismo parlamentario ha generado un gran interés en Guatemala. En términos generales, el transfuguismo se ha visto como algo negativo con serias repercusiones sobre la representación, el sistema de partidos políticos y la democracia en general. En este artículo se propone una alternativa al tradicional estudio normativo del transfuguismo. Se sugiere que la consideración del diputado de migrar es una decisión estratégica orientada a maximizar su función de utilidad, donde el representante ambicioso hace un balance entre su capital, los recursos que recibe del partido político, los costos de asociación y los costos de transacción. Luego de analizar preliminarmente la unidad partidaria, la volatilidad electoral y de revisar varios casos de estudio, se propone que en Guatemala el transfuguismo se da por el monopolio partidario sobre los recursos colectivos y privados, por los altos costos de asociación y por los bajos costos de transacción. ABSTRACT: The high incidence of party switching has generated a lot of interest in Guatemala, something that has not happened in the rest of the Central American countries. Traditionally, party switching has been considered as something negative with serious repercussions over representation, political parties, and democracy. This article proposes an alternative to the common normative or prescriptive study of party switching. The argument is that switching is a strategic decision by congressmen in order to maximize their utility function; ambitious members of Congress will evaluate their own resources, the resources political parties are willing to offer, their association costs and their transaction costs. After a preliminary analysis of party unity, electoral volatility and a few case studies, the article suggests that switching in Guatemala is a function of parties’ monopoly over private and collective goods, of high association costs and low transactions costs.

Political Parties and the Study of Political Development: New Insights from the Postcommunist Democracies

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Kreuzer ◽  
Vello Pettai
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Path Dependency ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Party Switching ◽  
Historical Legacies

This article reviews the literature on postcommunist parties, which, by applying old Westernbased theories to a new and very different context, makes two important contributions to comparative politics. First, the literature stresses the importance of long-term and short-term historical legacies for the institutionalization of parties and electoral alignments; in trying to incorporate such legacies, it offers refinements to works on path dependency and political development. Second, the literature highlights the underinstitutionalization of postcommunist parties and thereby offers new insights—particularly on the party switching of electoral candidates—for studying the formation and consolidation of political parties.

scholarly journals In the absence of values and ideologies, Party-switching in Nigeria is inevitable.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Mogaji
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Brand Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Party Switching ◽  
Political Scene ◽  
Focus Point ◽  
At Will

<p>This paper aims to explore the absence of values and ideologies within the political parties and how it contributes towards party switching, using the Nigerian political scene as a focus point. The personal values and ideologies of individual politicians was questioned as well. This paper further postulated that the neither the Nigerian politicians nor the political parties have values and ideologies they stand for. Not surprising there cannot be any alignment and politicians able to switch their party at will. They are not principled to stand for something that does not exists. Moving on beyond the 2019 election in Nigeria, the paper offers practical insights into brand identity development for political parties, especially the new ones.</p>

Dynamics of American Political Parties

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Brewer ◽  
Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties

Election Poster Persuasion

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Schott ◽  
Jule Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Additional Measure ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Policy Statements ◽  
Voting Intentions

Abstract. We examined the effect of presenting unknown policy statements on German parties’ election posters. Study 1 showed that participants inferred the quality of a presented policy from knowledge about the respective political party. Study 2 showed that participants’ own political preferences influenced valence estimates: policy statements presented on campaign posters of liked political parties were rated significantly more positive than those presented on posters of disliked political parties. Study 3 replicated the findings of Study 2 with an additional measure of participants’ need for cognition. Need for cognition scores were unrelated to the valence transfer from political parties to policy evaluation. Study 4 replicated the findings of Studies 2 and 3 with an additional measure of participants’ voting intentions. Voting intentions were a significant predictor for valence transfer. Participants credited both their individually liked and disliked political parties for supporting the two unknown policies. However, the credit attributed to the liked party was significantly higher than to the disliked one. Study 5 replicated the findings of Studies 2, 3, and 4. Additionally, participants evaluated political clubs that were associated with the same policies previously presented on election posters. Here, a second-degree transfer emerged: from party valence to policy evaluation and from policy evaluation to club evaluation. Implications of the presented studies for policy communications and election campaigning are discussed.

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