Political transitions in dominant party systems : learning to lose /
edited by Edward Friedman and Joseph Wong.
- xv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Politics in Asia series .
- Politics in Asia series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Learning to lose : dominant parties, dominant party systems, and their transitions / Congress learns to lose : from a one-party dominant to a multiparty system in India / A house divided against itself : the PRI's survival strategy after hegemony / Maintaining KMT dominance : party adaptation in authoritarian and democratic Taiwan / The master is gone, but does the house still stand? The fate of single-party systems after the defeat of single parties in West Africa / The communist exit in East Central Europe and its consequences / Learning to lose is for losers : the Japanese LDP's reform struggle / Embracing defeat : the KMT and the PRI after 2000 / Learning to lose (and sometimes win) : the neocommunist parties in post-Soviet politics / Defeat in victory, victory in defeat : the Korean conservatives in democratic consolidation / Learning to lose, learning to win : government and opposition in South Africa's transition to democracy / Learning to lose? Not if UMNO can help it / Singapore'exceptionalism'? Authoritarian rule and state transformation / Why the dominant party in China won't lose / Dominant parties and democratization : theory and comparative experience / Edward Friedman and Joseph Wong -- Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph -- Frederico Estez, Alberto Dz-Cayeros and Beatriz Magaloni -- Joseph Wong -- Cric Jourde -- Anna Grzymala-Busse -- T.J. Pempel -- Tun-jen Cheng -- John Ishiyama -- Byung-Kook Kim -- Antoinette Handley, Christina Murray and Richard Simeon -- Diane K. Mauzy and Shane J. Barter -- Garry Rodan -- Edward Friedman -- Laurence Whitehead.
Using country-specific case studies, analysts in the field focus on the lessons that dominant parties might learn from losing and the adaptations they consequently might make in order to survive, to remain competitive or to ultimately re-gain power.