PSRG papers

Click on the links to download the full text (in .PDF format) of the papers presented at the second PSRG workshop; Charlottesville, VA. July 10-14, 2005.

• Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver: "The Integer Arithmetic of Legislative Dynamics."
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• Scott Desposato: "The Impact of Party-Switching on Legislative Behavior in Brazil."
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• William Heller and Carol Mershon: "Legislator Preferences, Party Desires: Party Switching and the Foundations of Policy Making in Legislatures."
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• Junko Kato "Competition for Power: Party Switching as a Means for Changing Party Systems in Japan."
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• Gail McElroy and Kenneth Benoit: "Party Policy and Party Group Affiliation in the European Parliament."
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• Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova: "Electoral Cycles and Party Switching: Opportunistic Partisan Realignment in Legislatures."
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• Timothy Nokken: "Party Switching and the Procedural Party Agenda in the US House of Representatives, 1953-2002"
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• Norman Schofield: "Switching Equilibria." updated: May 4, 2006
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