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Political transitions in dominant party systems : learning to lose

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
eBook, English, 2008
Routledge, London, 2008
Cross-cultural studies
1 online resource
9780203893111, 0203893115
300955050
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