Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems write by Joseph Wong. This book was released on 2008-10-27. Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. The principle question examined in this book is what happens to dominant political parties when they lose or face the very real prospect of losing? Using country-specific case studies, top-rank analysts in the field focus on the lessons that dominant parties might learn from losing and the adaptations they consequently make in order to survive, to remain competitive or to ultimately re-gain power. Providing historical based, comparative research on issues of theoretical importance, Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of comparative politics, international politics and political parties.
Why Dominant Parties Lose
Why Dominant Parties Lose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Dominant Parties Lose write by Kenneth F. Greene. This book was released on 2007-09-03. Why Dominant Parties Lose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why have dominant parties persisted in power for decades in countries spread across the globe? Why did most eventually lose? Why Dominant Parties Lose develops a theory of single-party dominance, its durability, and its breakdown into fully competitive democracy. Greene shows that dominant parties turn public resources into patronage goods to bias electoral competition in their favor and virtually win elections before election day without resorting to electoral fraud or bone-crushing repression. Opposition parties fail because their resource disadvantages force them to form as niche parties with appeals that are out of step with the average voter. When the political economy of dominance erodes, the partisan playing field becomes fairer and opposition parties can expand into catchall competitors that threaten the dominant party at the polls. Greene uses this argument to show why Mexico transformed from a dominant party authoritarian regime under PRI rule to a fully competitive democracy.
Uncommon Democracies
Uncommon Democracies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncommon Democracies write by T. J. Pempel. This book was released on 2019-05-15. Uncommon Democracies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection of original essays, thirteen country specialists working within a common comparative frame of reference analyze major examples of long-term, single-party rule in industrialized democracies. They focus on four cases: Japan under the Liberal Democratic party since 1955; Italy under the Christian Democrats for thirty-five or more years starting in 1945; Sweden under the Social Democratic party from 1932 until 1976 (and again from 1982 until present); and Israel under the Labor party from pre-statehood until 1977.
Life in the Political Machine
Life in the Political Machine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life in the Political Machine write by Jonathan T. Hiskey. This book was released on 2020-08-03. Life in the Political Machine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Against the backdrop of a world characterized by highly uneven democracies, in which subnational dominant-party enclaves persist within nationally democratic regimes, Life in the Political Machine explores the ways in which these enclaves shape the political attitudes and behaviors of citizens who reside in them. Through analysis of a decade's worth of survey data across the fifty-five provinces and states of Argentina and Mexico, this study finds a distinct subnational political culture among individuals nested in dominant-party enclaves, characterized by heightened exposure to corruption and vote buying, low levels of support for democratic principles, and patterns of political behavior that reflect the governing characteristics of the political machines citizens must confront on a daily basis. In contrast, among those individuals living in subnational political systems that have successfully shut down the machine, the work finds a political culture more akin to that found in established democracies. As such, this book provides extensive support for the need to more fully incorporate subnational political dynamics into accounts of the drivers behind citizens' political attitudes and behaviors, in an era in which democracies across the world appear increasingly at risk"--
The Awkward Embrace
The Awkward Embrace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Awkward Embrace write by Charles Simkins. This book was released on 2005-08-08. The Awkward Embrace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Democracies derive their resilience and vitality from the fact that the rule of a particular majority is usually only of a temporary nature. By looking at four case-studies, The Awkward Embrace studies democracies of a different kind; rule by a dominant party which is virtually immune from defeat. Such systems have been called Regnant or or Uncommon Democracies. They are characterized by distinctive features: the staging of unfree or corrupt elections; the blurring of the lines between government, the ruling party and the state; the introduction of a national project which is seen to be above politics; and the erosion of civil society. This book addresses major issues such as why one such democracy, namely Taiwan, has been moving in the direction of a more competitive system; how economic crises such as the present one in Mexico can transform the system; how government-business relations in Malaysia are affecting the base of the dominant party; and whether South Africa will become a one-party dominant system.
