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9780203850114

Dominant Political Parties and Democracy

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    9780203850114

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    0203850114

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2010-06-10
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Summary

This book examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process.Bridging existing literatures, the authors analyse dominant parties at national and sub-national, district and intra-party levels and take a fresh look at some of the classic cases of one-party dominance. The book also features methodological advances in the study of dominant parties through contributions that develop new ways of conceptualizing and measuring one-party dominance. Combining theoretical and empirical research and bringing together leading experts in the field - including Hermann Giliomee and Kenneth Greene - this book features comparisons and case studies on Japan, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Italy, France and South Africa.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, democracy studies, comparative politics, party politics and international studies specialists.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Setting a New Agenda for Research
Concepts and Measures
Rethinking Dominant Party Systems
Measuring One-Party Dominance with Voting Power Indices
District-Level Dominance and Vulnerability under the French Fifth Republic
Cases and Comparisons
Sub-national Dominance
Big Fish in Small Ponds: A Comparison of Dominant Parties in the Canadian Provinces and German Länder
Hard and Soft Dominance: Assessing the Case of the Bavarian CSU
The Intra-Party Dimension of Dominance
The Factional Politics of Dominant Parties: Evidence from Britain, Italy and Japan
Dominance without Factions: The Liberal Party of Canada
Dominance and Democracy
A Resource Theory of Single Party Dominance: The PRI in Mexico
One-Party Dominance in South-Africa
Laying a Foundation for Democracy or Undermining It? Dominant Parties in AfricaÆs Burgeoning Democracies
Conclusion
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