Dominant political parties and democracy : concepts, measures, cases, and comparisons / edited by Matthijs Bogaards and Françoise Boucek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : setting a new agenda for research / Françoise Boucek and Matthijs Bogaards -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.