Semra Sevi revient sur un article coécrit avec Antoine Yoshinaka et André Blais sur les députés qui changent de parti. Subissent-ils des répercussions négatives de ce revirement ou non ? La réponse dans cet entretien mené par The House pour CBC.
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« "We initially thought there might be a difference, that certain types of switchers might be punished more by voters," said Semra Sevi, a PhD student at the University of Montreal and one of the authors of a new study in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. "But you're punished [at the ballot box] about the same, whether you switch to the opposition or to the government. » The electoral price floor-crossers pay for their shifting allegiances is a newer trend in Canadian politics, Sevi added. "The party system has changed. Floor-crossing used to be fairly common, and MPs used to switch parties with relative ease, but those days — in the early years of Confederation — are long past," she said. »
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