Dominant Political Parties and Democracy: Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138874132 ISBN 13: 9781138874138

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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, 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.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, democracy studies, comparative politics, party politics and international studies specialists.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138874132
• ISBN 13: 9781138874138
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bogaards Matthijs, Boucek Françoise