Dominant political parties and democracy concepts, measures, cases, and comparisons / edited by Matthijs Bogaards and Françoise Boucek.
| Other author | Bogaards, Matthijs. |
| Other author | Boucek, Françoise. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, |
| Description | xviii, 238 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 69 Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 69. ^A560845 |
| Contents | Introduction : setting a new agenda for research / Françoise Boucek and Matthijs Bogaards -- pt. 1. Concepts and measures. Rethinking dominant party systems / Patrick Dunleavy ; Measuring one-party dominance with voting power indices / Jean-François Caulier and Patrick Dumont ; District-level dominance and vulnerability under the French Fifth Republic / Nicolas Sauger -- pt. 2. Cases and comparisons. 1, Sub-national dominance. Big fish in small ponds : a comparison of dominant parties in the Canadian provinces and German Länder / Amir Abedi and Steffen Schneider ; Hard and soft dominance : assessing the case of the Bavarian CSU / Gordon Smith. 2, The intra-party dimension of dominance. The factional politics of dominant parties : evidence from Britain, Italy and Japan / Françoise Boucek ; Dominance without factions : the Liberal Party of Canada / R. Kenneth Carty. 3, Dominance and democracy. A resource theory of single-party dominance : the PRI in Mexico / Kenneth F. Greene ; One-party dominance in South Africa / James Myburgh and Hermann Giliomee ; Laying a foundation for democracy or undermining it? : dominant parties in Africa's burgeoning democracies / Staffan I. Lindberg and Jonathan Jones ; Conclusion / Françoise Boucek and Matthijs Bogaards. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009049918 |
| ISBN | 9780415485821 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0415485827 |
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