R. Kenneth Carty is is Professor Emeritus and former Head of Political Science in the University of British Columbia, where he held the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies, and served as the Director of the UBC Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Carty is a past President of the Canadian Political Science Association. His publications include Big Tent Politics (UBC Press, 2015), When Citizens Decide (with P. Fournier, H. van der Kolk, A. Blais, and J. Rose; OUP, 2015), and Politics is Local (OUP, 2005).
1: Party Dominance in Democracy
2: A Century of Dominance: The Liberal Party of Canada
3: Europe's Greatest Electoral Machine: Ireland's Fianna Fáil
4: A Family Business: Congress Party Politics in India
5: The Perpetual Government: The Japanese Liberal Democratic Party
6: A Dominant Generation: Italy's Christian Democratic Party
7: The Government Party
8: Competition in Dominant Party Systems
9: Leadership and Dominant Party Politics
10: Dominance and Decline Over the Long Run
11: Government Parties and Democratic Dominance