 | Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party Dominant Regimes Subjects: Political parties -- Congresses; Opposition (Political science) -- Congresses; Representative government and representation -- Congresses; Comparative government -- Congresses; One party systems -- Congresses; 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. T. J. Pempel is Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, Professor of Political Science, and holder of the Il Han New Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or editor of many books, including Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy , Crisis as Catalyst: Asia's Dynamic Political Economy , and The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis (all from Cornell) and Japan in Crisis: What Will It Take for Japan to Rise Again? |
