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>