Factional politics
Subtitle: how dominant parties implode or stabilize
By: Françoise Boucek
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780230019935
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General; Political parties; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties
Description: "Drawing on theories of neo-institutionalism to show how institutions shape dissident behavior, Boucek develops new ways of measuring factionalism and explains its effects on office tenure. In each of the four cases - from Britain, Canada, Italy and Japan - intra-party dynamics are analyzed through times series and rational choice tools"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: The Theory of One-party Dominance * Why does One-party Dominance End in Factionalism? * Comparing Westminster Systems: Executive-dominated Britain and Decentralized Canada * Case 1 - The Thatcher-Major Factional Wars over Europe * Case 2 - Trudeau, Chretien and Canadian Liberal Hegemony * Comparing Fragmented Italy and More Consensual Japan * Case 3 - Italy's Christian Democrats: How Factional Capture Bred Self-destruction * Case 4 - Japan's Liberal Democrats: Factional Exit and the Restoration of Liberal Democratic Hegemony * Conclusion: How Parties Succeed or Fail to Manage Factionalism and Stay in Power.