Selected published papers

Heller, William B., and Didem Seyis. 2021. "Voter Support for Anti-Immigrant Populist Parties: The Effect of Economic Pessimism and
'Out-Group” Immigration'." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 2(3, December 2021):429–451.
Heller, William B., Andreas P. Kyriacou, and Oriol Roca-Sagalés. 2016. "Institutional Checks and Corruption: The Effect of Formal Agenda Access on Governance." European Journal of Political Research 55(4, November):681-701.
VanDusky-Allen, Julie, and William B. Heller. 2014. "Bicameralism and the Logic of Party Organization." Comparative Political Studies 47(5, April 2014):715–742.
Heller, William B. 2007. “Divided Politics: Bicameralism, Parties, and Policy in Democratic Legislatures.” Annual Review of Political Science 10(June):245–269.

Book

Heller, William B., and Carol Mershon, eds. 2009. Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Table of contents (pre-publication versions; for post-publication chapters 1, 2, 7, and 11 follow the links or try Carol Mershon's ResearchGate page, where there is a pre-publication version of Chapter 8.)
  1. Introduction: Legislative Party Switching, Parties, and Party Systems (William B. Heller and Carol Mershon: pp. 3-28)
  2. Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Models of Party Switching (William B. Heller and Carol Mershon: pp. 29-51)
  3. Switching Equilibria (Norman Schofield: pp. 55-79)
  4. Party Switching and the Procedural Party Agenda in the US House of Representatives (Timothy P. Nokken: pp. 81-108)
  5. Party Switching in Brazil: Causes, Effects, and Representation (Scott Desposato: pp. 109-144)
  6. Party Group Switching in the European Parliament (Gail McElroy and Kenneth Benoit: pp. 147-172)
  7. Legislator Preferences, Party Desires: The Impact of Party Switching on Legislative Party Positions (William B. Heller and Carol Mershon: pp. 173-199)
  8. Timing Matters: Incentives for Party Switching and Stages of Parliamentary Cycles (Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova: pp. 201-229)
  9. Competition for Power: Party Switching and Party System Change in Japan (Junko Kato and Kentaro Yamamoto: pp. 233-263)
  10. Party Switching, Party Systems, and Political Representation (Marcus Kreuzer and Vello Pettai: pp. 265-285)
  11. Conclusions (William B. Heller and Carol Mershon: pp. 287-293)

Data

Heller and Branduse Bicameralism dataset (Stata) and codebook
  • Citation information: Heller, William B., and Diana M. Branduse. 2014. "The Politics of Bicameralism." In The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, ed. Shane Martin, Thomas Saalfeld, and Kaare Strøm. Oxford: Oxford University Press.​
Branduse and Heller Institutional Checks dataset (Stata) and codebook
  • Citation information:
    • Branduse, Diana M., and William B. Heller. 2013. "Measuring Institutions: Independence, Authority, and Accountability, with an Application to Legislative Process. Paper presented at the 2013 Annual Meetings of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 June.
    • Heller, William B., Andreas Kyriacou, and Oriol Roca-Sagalés. 2016. "Institutional Checks and Corruption: The Effect of Formal Agenda Access on Governance." European Journal of Political Research 55(4, November):681-701.
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