Research Catalog

Title

Political change in Japan : electoral behavior, party realignment, and the Koizumi reforms / edited by Steven R. Reed, Kenneth Mori McElwain, and Kay Shimizu

Publication

Stanford, CA : Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center ; Baltimore, MD : Brookings Institution (distributor), c2009

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Additional Authors

• Reed, Steven R., 1947-
• McElwain, Kenneth Mori.
• Shimizu, Kay.
• Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Description

xii, 319 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Koizumi, Jun'ichirō, 1942-
• Jiyū Minshutō
• Since 1989
• Geschichte 2001-2007
• Political participation > Japan
• Opposition (Political science) > Japan
• Political parties > Japan
• Political campaigns > Japan
• Election law > Japan
• Prime ministers > Japan > Election
• Japan > Politics and government > 1989-

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Based on papers originally presented at the "2007 Stanford Conference on Electoral and Legislative Politics in Japan."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- 1. An overview of postwar Japanese politics / Steven R. Reed and Kay Shimizu -- 2. Avoiding a two-party system : the Liberal Democratic Party versus Duverger's Law / Steven R. Reed and Kay Shimizu -- 3. Has the electoral-system reform made Japanese elections party-centered? / Ko Maeda -- 4. Pork barrel politics and partisan realignment in Japan / Jun Saito -- 5. Declining electoral competitiveness in Japan : postreform trends and theoretical pessimism / Robert J. Weiner -- 6. How Koizumi won / Chao-Chi Lin -- 7. How long are Koizumi's coattails? Party-leader visits in the 2005 election / Kenneth Mori McElwain -- 8. Two steps forward, one step back : Japanese postal privatization as a window on political and policy making change / Patricia L. Maclachlan -- 9. The slow government response to Japan's bank crisis : a new interpretation / Ethan Scheiner and Michio Muramatsu -- 10. Stealing elections : a comparison of election-night corruption in Japan, Canada, and the United States / Ray Christensen and Kyle Colvin -- 11. The puzzle of the Japanese gender gap in Liberal Democratic Party support / Barry C. Burden -- 12. Women running for national office in Japan : are Koizumi's female "children" a short-term anomaly or a lasting phenomenon? / Alisa Gaunder -- 13. Surrogate representation : building sustainable linkage structures in contemporary Japanese politics / Sherry L. Martin -- 14. Japanese politics in the Koizumi era : temporary anomaly or a paradigm shift? / Kenneth Mori McElwain and Steven R. Reed.

ISBN

• 9781931368148
• 1931368147

OCLC

• 185691311
• SCSB-9916317

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