Why Dominant Parties Lose - Mexico''s Democratization in Comparative Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Kenneth F. Greene is Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His research on regimes, political parties, and voting behavior has been published in Comparative Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, Politica y Gobierno, and Foreign Affairs en Espanol. He has served as Co-Principal Investigator on two National Science Foundation grants for elite and voter survey research in Mexico, won a Fulbright-Garcia Robles fellowship, and held visiting positions at the Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University and at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. Klappentext Why Dominant Parties Lose develops a theory of single-party dominance, its durability, and its breakdown into a fully competitive democracy. Zusammenfassung Why Dominant Parties Lose explains why dominant parties win for long periods and then ultimately lose. Greene argues that dominant parties benefit from dramatic advantages over the opposition! primarily because they are able to transform public funds into partisan resources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Macro Perspective: 1. A theory of single-party dominance and opposition party development; 2. Dominant party advantages and opposition party failure, 1930s-90s; Part II. The Micro Perspective: 3. Why participate? A theory of elite activism in dominant party systems; 4. The empirical dynamics of elite activism; Part III. Implications: 5. Constrained to the core: opposition party organizations, 1980s-90s; 6. Dominance defeated: voting behavior in the 2000 elections; 7. Extending the argument: Italy, Japan, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth F. Greene, Kenneth F. (University of Texas Greene, Greene Kenneth F.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2007
• EAN: 9780521877190
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87719-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Mexico, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, Political parties and party platforms