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Dominant Political Parties and Democracy : Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons.
Examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process. Combining theoretical and empirical research, this title features case studies on Japan, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Italy, France and South A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Lnder; 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.