Factional Politics

1. Introduction
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2. The Theory of One-Party Dominance
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3. Why Does One-Party Dominance End in Factionalism?
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4. Majoritarian Democracies: Executive-Dominated Britain and Decentralised Canada
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5. Case 1 — The Thatcher-Major Factional Wars over Europe
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6. Case 2 — The Demise of Canadian Liberal Hegemony
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7. Non-Majoritarian Democracies: Centrifugal Italy and Consensual Japan
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8. Case 3 — Italy’s Christian Democrats: How Factional Capture Bred Self-Destruction
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9. Case 4 — The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (1955–2009): End of Hegemony
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10. Conclusion: How Parties Succeed or Fail to Manage Factionalism and Stay in Power
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Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Science, Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Comparative Politics, Social Sciences, general