Comparative Politics: Industrialized Countries / Comparative Politics: Industrialized Countries

Kyung Joon Han, The University of Tennessee

Autocracy vs Democracy: Party System Institutionalization and Nationalization in Dominant Party Systems - Maria Seredina, Texas Tech University

Merges, Splits, and Dissolutions; How do parties die? - Roi Zur, University of Essex

Regionalist Parties and Minister Portfolio Allocation: A shift in policy preferences? - Lorenzo Terrière, University of Ghent

Should I Stay or Go? Why Politicians Leave or Join Parties, Evidence from Japan - Dennis P. Patterson, Texas Tech University; Masahiko Asano, Takushoku University

There Is No “I” in Team? The Influence of Generational Identities and Educational Attainment of Cabinet Ministers on Government Durations in Parliamentary Democracies - Simon Kenneth Mace, United States Air Force; James Richard Martin, Creighton University

Zsuzsanna Blanka Magyar, University of Barcelona

Jonathan Homola, Rice University