TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cohen, Denis
A1  - Krause, Werner
A1  - Abou-Chadi, Tarik
T1  - Comparative vote switching
T2  - The journal of politics
N2  - Large literatures focus on voter reactions to parties’ policy strategies, agency, or legislative performance. While many inquiries make explicit assumptions about the direction and magnitude of voter flows between parties, comparative empirical analyses of vote switching remain rare. In this article, we overcome three challenges that have previously impeded the comparative study of dynamic party competition based on voter flows: we present a novel conceptual framework for studying voter retention, defection, and attraction in multiparty systems, showcase a newly compiled data infrastructure that marries comparative vote switching data with information on party behavior and party systems in over 250 electoral contexts, and introduce a statistical model that renders our conceptual framework operable. These innovations enable first-time inquiries into the polyadic vote switching patterns underlying multiparty competition and unlock major research potentials on party competition and party system change.
KW  - vote switching
KW  - party competition
KW  - multi-party systems
KW  - data and methods
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63703
SN  - 0022-3816
SN  - 1468-2508
VL  - 86
IS  - 2
SP  - 597
EP  - 607
PB  - University of Chicago Press
CY  - Chicago, IL
ER  -