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electoral behavior, party realignment, and the Koizumi reforms
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
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 policymaking 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.
edited by Steven R. Reed, Kenneth Mori McElwain, and Kay Shimizu.
Based on papers originally presented at the "2007 Stanford Conference on Electoral and Legislative Politics in Japan."
Includes bibliographical references and index.