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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Dominant parties"”.
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Party system institutionalization and nationalization in dominant party systems
… this dissertation is to examine the influence of dominant parties on party system institutionalization and nationalization in non-democratic countries. The results of this dissertation clearly show that the presence of the dominant party member significantly influences the level of electoral …
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An evaluation of Greene's resource theory of party dominance with reference to the South African case
… National Congress is commonly thought of as a dominant party, which poses an explanatory problem – how and why is it dominant? Greene (2007) proposes that orthodox electoral market explanations fail to explain the persistence of dominant parties, and advances that “hyperincumbency advantages” …
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The Alternation Fallacy: Turnover without Transformation in Zambia (1991-2015)
… in the colonial era, undermines all ruling parties in Zambia. The study finds that succession contests, triggered by term limits or the deaths of sitting presidents, are the primary mechanism which repeatedly weakens dominant parties. The outcomes of such intra-party conflicts have …
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Towards a neoliberal citizenship regime: A post-Marxist discourse analysis
… articulatory discourse strategies of governing parties in the 1980s and 1990s. Struggles between government administrations and citizen-based social movement groups were articulated to the neoliberal project. I also argue that in the late 1990s, discursive struggle between the dominant parties …
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Voice and accountability in one party dominant systems : a comparative case study of Mexico and South Africa
This thesis examines the impact of one party dominant systems on liberal democracy in developing countries. It is insufficient to argue that one party dominant systems – systems where one party dominates over a prolonged period - need not be further scrutinised because they occur within …