Measuring group switching in the European Parliament: Methodology, data and trends (1979-2009 Migração partidária no Parlamento Europeu: metodologia, dados e tendências (1979-2009)

Party group switching in the European Parliament (EP), where parliamentarians individually or collectively switch from one party group to the other is a well-known contributor to the volatility of the EP party system. We present a new dataset that contains party group in formation on all MEPs from 1...

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Main Authors: Ana Maria Evans, Maarten Peter Vink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa 2012-01-01
Series:Análise Social
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.oces.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732012000100004