Political change in Japan : electoral behavior, party realignment, and the Koizumi reforms /
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Stanford, CA :
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center ;
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.