Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems Learning to Lose [Paperback]

This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. The principle question examined in this book is what happens to dominant political parties when they lose or face the very real prospect of losing? Using country-specific case studies, top-rank analysts in the field focus on the lessons that dominant parties might learn from losing and the adaptations they consequently make in order to survive, to remain competitive or to ultimately re-gain power.

Providing historical based, comparative research on issues of theoretical importance, Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systemswill be invaluable reading for students and scholars of comparative politics, international politics and political parties.

1. Learning to Lose: Dominant Parties, Dominant Party Systems, and Their Transitions Edward Friedman & Joseph Wong  2. Congress Learns to Lose: From a One-Party Dominant to a Multiparty System in India Susanne Hoeber Rudolph & Lloyd I. Rudolph  3. A House Divided Against Itself: The PRIs Survival Strategy After Hegemony Frederico Estevez, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros & Beatriz Magaloni  4. Maintaining KMT Dominance: Party Adaptation in Authoritarian and Democratic Taiwan Joseph Wong  5. 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 Cedric Jourde  6. The Communist Exit in East Central Europe and Its Consequences Anna Grzymala-Busse  7. Learning to Lose is For Losers: The Japanese LDPs Reform Struggle T.J. Pempel  8. Embracing Defeat: The KMT and the PRI after 2000 Tun-jen Cheng  9. Learning to Lose (and Sometimes Win): The Neocommunist Parties in Post Soviet Politics John Ishiyama  10. Defeat in lC"