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Friend or foe? : dominant party systems in Southern Africa : insights from the developing world
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Friend or foe? : dominant party systems in Southern Africa : insights from the developing world

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Published in 2013 in South Africa by UCT Press, an imprint of Juta and Company Ltd.
The countries studied are Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, with comparable coverage of four non-African nations: India, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Contents

Introduction / Nicola de Jager and Pierre du Toit
The political costs of privatisation : why democratic and authoritarian dominant parties meet their doom / Kenneth F. Greene
The dominant party system and democracy : the Congress Party in India / Thiven Reddy
Transitioning from a dominant party system to multi-party system : the case of South Korea / Joseph Wong
From authoritarianism to nascent democracy in Taiwan : electoral elements of the Kuomintang-dominant regime / Yun-han Chu and Chung-li Wu
Interrogating the dominant party system in Botswana / David Sebudubudu and Mokganedi Zara Botlhomilwe
The politics and resource endowment of party dominance in Namibia : the past as the present and the future? / Andre du Pisani
South Africa : a democracy in the balance / Nicola de Jager
Heroes fall, oppressors rise : democratic decay & authoritarianism in Zimbabwe / Annemie Britz and Josephat Tshuma
Conclusion : resources and the politics of dominant party systems / Pierre du Toit and Nicola de Jager.

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