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.

1. Learning to Lose: Dominant Parties, Dominant Party Systems, and Their Transitions Edward Friedman and Joseph Wong 2. Congress Learns to Lose: From a One-Party Dominant to a Multiparty System in India Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph 3. A House Divided Against Itself: The PRI’s Survival Strategy After Hegemony Frederico Estevez, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and 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 LDP’s 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 Victory, Victory in Defeat: The Korean Conservatives in Democratic Consolidation Byung-Kook Kim 11. Learning to Lose, Learning to Win: Government and Opposition in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy Antoinette Handley, Christina Murray and Richard Simeon 12. Learning to Lose? Not if UMNO Can Help It Diane K. Mauzy and Shane J. Barter 13. Singapore "Exceptionalism"? Authoritarian Rule and State Transformation Garry Rodan 14. Why the Dominant Party in China Won’t Lose Edward Friedman 15. Dominant Parties and Democratization:Theory and Comparative Experience Laurence Whitehead