Parties' parliamentary delegations contain a multitude of interests. While scholars suspect
that this variation affects party behaviour, most work on parties' policy statements treats …

Theoretical and empirical models of legislative decision making in parliamentary
democracies typically neglect the policy preferences of individual MPs and instead focus on …

The book provides a comprehensive view on the internal life of parties and investigates the
dynamics of intra-party politics in different party environments to explain in which …

Theories often explain intraparty competition based on electoral conditions and intraparty
rules. This article further opens this black box by considering intraparty statements of …

In this article, we highlight the importance of accounting for time in the study of pledge
fulfillment, effectively adding a significant element to the ongoing academic discussions of …

This paper analyzes how factional conflict and intra-party organization affect a party's
likelihood of being involved in a ruling coalition. We focus on Italian parties (between 1946 …

Intra-party cohesion (IPC) is a concept extensively used to assess institutional change and
behaviour in legislative and party politics. In spite of its popularity, there is confusion about …

Members of Parliament (MPs) who vote against their party can improve their public standing.
But how do MPs explain and frame their rebellious behavior to maximize their appeal? And …

This article investigates intra-party politics and explores the determinants of factional
breakaways, going beyond the unitary actor assumption. It presents a game-theoretic model …

The question whether politicians' outside earnings affect their legislative behaviour is part of
a lively debate about the quality of representative democracy. However, moonlighting effects …