The Awkward Embrace: One-party Domination and DemocracyHermann Giliomee, Charles Edward Wickens Simkins Taylor & Francis, 1999 - 368 Seiten Democracies derive their resilience and vitality from the fact that the rule of a particular majority is usually only of a temporary nature. By looking at four case-studies, The Awkward Embracestudies democracies of a different kind; rule by a dominant party which is virtually immune from defeat. Such systems have been called Regnant or or Uncommon Democracies. They are characterized by distinctive features: the staging of unfree or corrupt elections; the blurring of the lines between government, the ruling party and the state; the introduction of a national project which is seen to be above politics; and the erosion of civil society. This book addresses major issues such as why one such democracy, namely Taiwan, has been moving in the direction of a more competitive system; how economic crises such as the present one in Mexico can transform the system; how government-business relations in Malaysia are affecting the base of the dominant party; and whether South Africa will become a one-party dominant system.ome a one-party dominant system. |
Inhalt
| 3 | |
| 49 | |
| 63 | |
| 99 | |
The Resilience of OneParty Dominance in Malaysia and Singapore | 129 |
Dominant Party and Opposition Parties in Mexico From Crisis to Reform to Crisis | 175 |
Bridge or Bridgehead? Comparing the Party Systems of Botswana Namibia Zimbabwe Zambia and Malawi | 195 |
The Transformation of LaborBased OnePartyism at the End of the 20th Century The Case of Mexico | 221 |
The Mexican Paradox NeoLiberalism and Labor Entrenchment in Mexicos Ruling Party | 247 |
Corporatism as Minority Veto under ANC Hegemony in South Africa | 263 |
Democracy or Democratic Hegemony? The Future of Political Pluralism in South Africa | 283 |
Grassroots Electoral Organizations and Political Reform in the ROC on Taiwan and Mexico | 303 |
Does Democracy Require an Opposition Party? Implications of Some Recent African Experience | 321 |
Conclusion | 339 |
Index | 357 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
The Awkward Embrace: One-Part Domination and Democracy in Industrialising ... Hermann Giliomee,Charles Simkins Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
The Awkward Embrace: One-Part Domination and Democracy in Industrialising ... Charles Simkins Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
The Awkward Embrace: One-party Domination and Democracy Hermann Buhr Giliomee,Charles Edward Wickens Simkins Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1999 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
African voters alliance ANC's authoritarian Barisan Botswana campaign candidates capital cent challenge Chinese civil society coalition competition consensus consolidation constituency contested corporatism corporatist countries crisis delegitimation democratic demokaraasi despite dominant party system economic growth economic policy effective elections electoral elite emerging ethnic factions forces grassroots groups ideological important income independence institutions interests internal issues KMT's labor movement leaders leadership Lee Teng-hui Legislative Yuan legitimacy liberal democracy majority Malay Malaysia ment Mexican Mexico middle class minority multi-party negotiated neoliberal one-party dominance opposition parties organisations party's patronage Pempel political parties political reform political system popular position President presidential racial regime result role ruling party Salinas seats sector Senegal Singapore single-party social South Africa strategy SWAPO T.J. Pempel Taiwan Taiwanese tiau-a-ka tion transition UMNO unions University Press vote Wolof workers Zambia Zedillo Zimbabwe
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 68 - In their final form, they provided the president with unlimited emergency power and invalidated the two-term limit on the presidency, suspended the reelection of the three national representative bodies — the National Assembly, the Legislative Yuan and the Control Yuan — extended the tenure of their incumbent members for life, and deferred the election of provincial and municipal heads indefinitely.
Seite 67 - Within each administrative district below the provincial level, the KMT nurtured and kept at least two competing local factions striving for public offices and other electoral offices in many quasi-state organizations, such as farmers...
Seite 141 - Donald L. Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
Seite 156 - I do not believe that democracy necessarily leads to development. I believe that what a country needs to develop is discipline more than democracy. The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development (Far Eastern Economic Review, 1992).
Seite 340 - Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America," Comparative Politics 23 (October 1990): 1-21; Terry Lynn Karl and Philippe C.
Seite 102 - Even the enemies of the dominant party, even citizens who refuse to give it their vote, acknowledge its superior status and its influence; they deplore it but admit it.
Seite 28 - PAC are often vague and cool is less important than that behind the reply there has often been embarrassment and some resolve not to let it happen again. The Estimates Committee, created in 1950, has made up in activity for its later arrival. Indeed, it has gone far to justify the parliamentary...
Seite 199 - Botswana Votes: Parties and Elections in an African Democracy", The Journal of Modem African Studies, vol.
Seite 139 - Gordon P. Means, Malaysian Politics: The Second Generation (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 193-248. The Semangat '46 was formally registered in June 1989. The "46" refers to the year in which the original UMNO was founded.