Dominant Political Parties and Democracy

<p>This book examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process.</p><p>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. </p><p>This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, democracy studies, comparative politics, party politics and international studies specialists.</p> <p>1. Introduction: Setting a New Agenda for Research <strong>Part 1: Concepts and Measures</strong> 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 <strong>Part 2: Cases and Comparisons</strong> <strong>i: Sub-national Dominance</strong> 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 <strong>ii: The Intra-Party Dimension of Dominance</strong> 7. The Factional Politics of Dominant Parties: Evidence from Britain, Italy and Japan 8. Dominance without Factions: The Liberal Party of Canada <strong>iii: Dominance and Democracy</strong> 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 </p>