Dominant Political Parties and Democracy: Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons

ISBN-13: 9780415485821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str.

Matthijs Bogaards;Françoise Boucek

Opis

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 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 T.J. Pempel and Hermann Giliomee, this book features 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 area studies specialists.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Setting a New Agenda for Research  Part 1: 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 2: Cases and Comparisons  i: Sub-national Dominance  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  ii: The Intra-Party Dimension of Dominance  7. The Factional Politics of Dominant Parties: Evidence from Britain, Italy and Japan  8. Dominance without Factions: The Liberal Party of Canada  iii: Dominance and Democracy  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

O autorze

Matthijs Bogaards is Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. Françoise Boucek is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics at Queen Mary University London, UK.