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Introduction: Setting A New Agenda For Research / Françoise Boucek And Matthijs Bogaards -- Pt. 1. Concepts And Measures. Rethinking Dominant Party Systems / Patrick Dunleavy; Measuring One-party Dominance With Voting Power Indices / Jean-françois Caulier And Patrick Dumont; District-level Dominance And Vulnerability Under The French Fifth Republic / Nicolas Sauger -- Pt. 2. Cases And Comparisons. 1, Sub-national Dominance. Big Fish In Small Ponds: A Comparison Of Dominant Parties In The Canadian Provinces And German Länder / Amir Abedi And Steffen Schneider; Hard And Soft Dominance: Assessing The Case Of The Bavarian Csu / Gordon Smith. 2, The Intra-party Dimension Of Dominance. The Factional Politics Of Dominant Parties: Evidence From Britain, Italy And Japan / Françoise Boucek; Dominance Without Factions: The Liberal Party Of Canada / R. Kenneth Carty. 3, Dominance And Democracy. A Resource Theory Of Single-party Dominance: The Pri In Mexico / Kenneth F. Greene; One-party Dominance In South Africa / James Myburgh And Hermann Giliomee; Laying A Foundation For Democracy Or Undermining It?: Dominant Parties In Africa's Burgeoning Democracies / Staffan I. Lindberg And Jonathan Jones; Conclusion / Françoise Boucek And Matthijs Bogaards. Edited By Matthijs Bogaards And Françoise Boucek. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.