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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.
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Dominant political parties and democracy : concepts, measures, cases, and comparisons. ISBN 9780203850114. Published by Routledge in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.