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1 online resource |
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Critical readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan ; v. 1 |
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Critical readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan ; v. 1
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Introduction; Part 1 The Origin and Development of the LDP; The Creation of the Liberal Democratic Party in1955; The LDP; Political Parties; Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics in Japan; The Evolution of the ldp's Intraparty Politics; Rational Foundations for the Organization of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan; Creative Conservatism: Public Policy in Japan; Party Organization; The Conservative Policy Line and the Development of Patterned Pluralism; Conclusion: Democracy without Competition |
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The Politics of Party: The Liberal Democrats and their RivalsEpilogue: LDP Rule in the 1980s; Introduction: Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party Dominant Regimes; Over-Nominating Candidates, Undermining the Party: The Collective Action Problem under SNTV in Japan; Party Strategy or Candidate Strategy: How Does the LDP Run the Right Number of Candidates in Japan's Multi-Member Districts?; Manipulating Electoral Rules to Manufacture Single-Party Dominance |
| Summary |
This work collects decades of the best published scholarship in English on the unequivocally most successful political party in Japanese history: the Liberal Democratic Party (the LDP). Governing Japan for almost the entirety of the post-war period, the LDP also has a claim to be the most successful political party in any post-war democracy. Seminal articles in this collection explore the key aspects of the LDP: the party's evolution since its founding in 1955; key facets of the LDP's internal organization including factions and koenkai; the LDP in policy-making, including its relationship with the bureaucracy and interest groups, as well as its policy-making committee apparatus; and, party leadership, including the premierships of Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jiyū Minshutō.
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Jiyū Minshutō |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Politics and government
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 1945-
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pekkanen, Robert, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004380523 |
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9004380523 |
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