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The Making of Mavericks: Local Loyalties and Party Defection

By focusing on parliamentary systems, this article presents an argument that legislators who have strong local ties and individual support bases are more likely to be individualistic and so break party unity in parliament. They are simply less dependent on parties for their careers, political and otherwise. The article draws on an original data set of legislators' votes and their biographies from five European democracies. The results show that local-level political experience is a strong predictor of being a maverick in parliament.

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Series Title
Comparative Political Studies
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Publisher
Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publication.,
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Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
0010-4140
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Edition
Volume 42, Number 6, June 2009. pp. 793-815
Subject(s)
Europe
Localism
Personal Vote
Party Unity
Legislative behavior
The Making of Mavericks
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