Kenneth F. GreeneWhy Dominant Parties Lose
Mexico's Democratization in Comparative Perspective
Kenneth F. Greene is Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His research on regimes, political parties, and voting behavior has been published in Comparative Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, Politica y Gobierno, and Foreign Affairs en Espanol. He has served as Co-Principal Investigator on two National Science Foundation grants for elite and voter survey research in Mexico, won a Fulbright-Garcia Robles fellowship, and held visiting positions at the Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University and at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002.
Part I. The Macro Perspective: 1. A theory of single-party dominance and
opposition party development; 2. Dominant party advantages and opposition
party failure, 1930s-90s; Part II. The Micro Perspective: 3. Why
participate? A theory of elite activism in dominant party systems; 4. The
empirical dynamics of elite activism; Part III. Implications: 5.
Constrained to the core: opposition party organizations, 1980s-90s; 6.
Dominance defeated: voting behavior in the 2000 elections; 7. Extending the
argument: Italy, Japan, Malaysia, and Taiwan.
