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Dominant political parties and democracy : concepts, measures, cases and comparisons / edited by Matthijs Bogaards and Francoise Boucek.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
- Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science ; v.v. 69
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 r
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Series editor's preface; 1 Introduction: Setting a new agenda for research; Part I: Concepts and measures; 2 Rethinking dominant party systems; 3 Measuring one-party dominance with voting power indices; 4 District-level dominance and vulnerability under the French Fifth Republic; Part II: Cases and comparisons; 5 Big fish in small ponds: A comparison of dominant parties in the Canadian provinces and German Länder; 6 Hard and soft dominance: Assessing the case of the Bavarian CSU
- 7 The factional politics of dominant parties: Evidence from Britain, Italy and Japan8 Dominance without factions: The Liberal Party of Canada; 9 A resource theory of single-party dominance: The PRI in Mexico; 10 One-party dominance in South Africa; 11 Laying a foundation for democracy or undermining it?: Dominant parties in Africa's burgeoning democracies; 12 Conclusion; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-96008-2
- 1-136-96009-0
- 1-282-62926-3
- 9786612629266
- 0-203-85011-4
- 9780203850114
- OCLC:
- 642661606
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