List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Theory of One-Party Dominance 2. Why Does One-Party Dominance End in Factionalism 3. Majoritarian Democracies: Executive-Dominated Britain and Decentralised Canada 4. Case 1 – The Thatcher-Major Factional Wars Over Europe 5. Case 2 – The Demise of Canadian Liberal Hegemony 6. Non-Majoritarian Democracies: Centrifugal Italy and Consensual Japan 7. Case 3 – Italy’s Christian Democrats: How Factional Capture Bred Self-Destruction 8. Case 4 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (1955-2009): End of Hegemony Conclusion: How Parties Succeed or Fail to Manage Factionalism and Stay in Power Notes Bibliography Index

FRANÇOISE BOUCEK is a Teaching Fellow in European Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, a Visiting Professor at the University of Witten Herdecke (Germany) and an Associate of the LSE Public Policy Group. Her research interests include political parties and party systems, party government and representative democracy.