Political transitions in dominant party systems : learning to lose / edited by Edward Friedman and Joseph Wong.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Learning to lose : dominant parties, dominant party systems, and their transitions / Edward Friedman and Joseph Wong -- Congress learns to lose : from a one-party dominant to a multiparty system in India / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph -- A house divided against itself : the PRI's survival strategy after hegemony / Frederico Estévez, Alberto Díaz-Cayeros and Beatriz Magaloni -- Maintaining KMT dominance : party adaptation in authoritarian and democratic Taiwan / Joseph Wong -- 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 / Cédric Jourde -- The communist exit in East Central Europe and its consequences / Anna Grzymala-Busse -- Learning to lose is for losers : the Japanese LDP's reform struggle / T. J. Pempel -- Embracing defeat : the KMT and the PRI after 2000 / Tun-jen Cheng -- Learning to lose (and sometimes win) : the neocommunist parties in post-Soviet politics / John Ishiyama -- Defeat in victory, victory in defeat : the Korean conservatives in democratic consolidation / Byung-Kook Kim -- Learning to lose, learning to win : government and opposition in South Africa's transition to democracy / Antoinette Handley, Christina Murray and Richard Simeon -- Learning to lose? Not if UMNO can help it / Diane K. Mauzy and Shane J. Barter -- Singapore "exceptionalism"? Authoritarian rule and state transformation / Garry Rodan -- Why the dominant party in China won't lose / Edward Friedman -- Dominant parties and democratization : theory and comparative experience / Laurence Whitehead.ad.