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Author : Ethan Scheiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521846929
This book explains why no opposition party has been able to offer itself as a sustained challenger in Japan.
Author : Ethan Scheiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521846927
This book explains why no opposition party has been able to offer itself as a sustained challenger in Japan.
Author : Arthur Stockwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Japan
ISBN : 1032185422
This book explores the party politics and political system of Japan, which since 1955 has been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), with a particular focus on the evolution of LDP governments between the 1990s and 2010s. Through its evaluation of the legacy of post-war opposition parties, the politics of electoral reform and the crucial importance of foreign policy (especially in relation to China), this volume argues that Japan has 'lost its way', and that for recovery it needs to move away from single-party dominance. Despite the failures of the Democratic Party (DPJ) government 2009-2012, the reasons for which are explored, the need to combat economic, social and political stagnation requires a more pluralist political environment, in which LDP monopoly of policy and personnel can be realistically challenged by vigorous opposition parties. Comparisons are made with other parliamentary democracies, in particular the United Kingdom, Australia and Sweden, to indicate that single-party dominance is an inadequate substitute for competition between genuine political alternatives. As an analysis of opposition party politics in post-war Japan, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies and Japanese Studies.
Author : Frank J. Schwartz,Susan J. Pharr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521534623
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Author : Daniel M. Smith
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503606401
Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators. Japan is a startling exception, with over a quarter of all legislators in recent years being dynastic. In Dynasties and Democracy, Daniel M. Smith sets out to explain when and why dynasties persist in democracies, and why their numbers are only now beginning to wane in Japan—questions that have long perplexed regional experts. Smith introduces a compelling comparative theory to explain variation in the presence of dynasties across democracies and political parties. Drawing on extensive legislator-level data from twelve democracies and detailed candidate-level data from Japan, he examines the inherited advantage that members of dynasties reap throughout their political careers—from candidate selection, to election, to promotion into cabinet. Smith shows how the nature and extent of this advantage, as well as its consequences for representation, vary significantly with the institutional context of electoral rules and features of party organization. His findings extend far beyond Japan, shedding light on the causes and consequences of dynastic politics for democracies around the world.
Author : Ethan Scheiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCSD:31822031998099
Author : Ray Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000036763
This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics, using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how elections operate in a non-Western democracy. Featuring extensive data and evidence from both Japan and the United States, the themes covered include one-party rule, ballot security and voting procedures, election regulations, malapportionment and gerrymandering, court interventions, voter attachments, and distortions of the public will by election rules. In so doing, the analysis challenges conventional wisdom in both Japan and the United States, highlighting surprising and counterintuitive findings from decades of observation. This book also explicitly compares Japan to other, similarly situated democracies. Japan is therefore not treated as a standalone case but, rather, the lessons from Japan are contextualized for greater understanding and can be used to inform discussions about comparative elections and democracy. Offering practical advice in relation to elections and the functions of democracy, Japanese Democracy and Lessons for the United States will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese, US, and comparative politics.
Author : Magdalene Antreou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527544048
Turkey currently has an ailing democratic regime, and the country remains trapped in the gap which separates liberal constitutional regimes from totalitarian regimes. It has been trying to join the former camp for decades, but has not yet made substantial progress in this endeavour. This book documents the four main causes of the “disease” which troubles the Turkish democracy: namely, socio-economic underdevelopment, the dependent middle classes, the perpetuation of the “Kurdish Issue”, and the weak opposition play a significant role in the shaping of the modern Turkish political system. It shows that, following the post-Cold War trend of the developing world of establishing a hybrid majoritarian political system, the Turkish political system constituted the conservative response of the ruling elites to the country’s socio-political changes.
Author : Herbert Kitschelt,Steven I. Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521865050
A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.
Author : Diego Abente Brun,Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421412290
Abente Brun and Diamond invited some of the best social scientists in the field to systematically explore how political clientelism works and evolves in the context of modern developing democracies, with particular reference to social policies aimed at reducing poverty. Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy is balanced between a section devoted to understanding clientelism's infamous effects and history in Latin America and a section that draws out implications for other regions, specifically Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern and Central Europe.
Author : Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti,Nissim Otmazgin,Alon Levkowitz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498502238
This book introduces a multilayered approach to the study of democracy, combining specific knowledge of Japan with theoretical insights from the literature on democratization. It examines different aspects of Japanese democracy—historical, institutional, and sociocultural—to provide a conscious understanding of the nature and practice of democracy, both in Japan and beyond. The book's chapters give testimony to the dynamic nature and continuity of Japanese democracy and analyze its strengths and weaknesses. The central argument of this book is that Japan’s democratization should be seen as a multilayered experience shaped by the gradual process of absorbing democratic ideas, forming democratic institutions, and practicing democratic behaviors and rituals at various levels of society. As the case of Japan shows, democracy is neither a structured formula nor only a set of democratic laws and institutions, but a continuous, gradual process.
Author : Robert G. Moser,Ethan Scheiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107025424
This book highlights how new and established democracies differ from one another in the effects of their electoral rules.
Author : Mark A. Graber,Sanford Levinson,Mark Tushnet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190888992
Is the world facing a serious threat to the protection of constitutional democracy? There is a genuine debate about the meaning of the various political events that have, for many scholars and observers, generated a feeling of deep foreboding about our collective futures all over the world. Do these events represent simply the normal ebb and flow of political possibilities, or do they instead portend a more permanent move away from constitutional democracy that had been thought triumphant after the demise of the Soviet Union in 1989? Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? addresses these questions head-on: Are the forces weakening constitutional democracy around the world general or nation-specific? Why have some major democracies seemingly not experienced these problems? How can we as scholars and citizens think clearly about the ideas of "constitutional crisis" or "constitutional degeneration"? What are the impacts of forces such as globalization, immigration, income inequality, populism, nationalism, religious sectarianism? Bringing together leading scholars to engage critically with the crises facing constitutional democracies in the 21st century, these essays diagnose the causes of the present afflictions in regimes, regions, and across the globe, believing at this stage that diagnosis is of central importance - as Abraham Lincoln said in his "House Divided" speech, "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
Author : Ellis S. Krauss,Robert Pekkanen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801476828
Explains how the persistence of party institutions (factions, PARC, koenkai) and the transformed role of party leadership in Japan contributed both to the LDP's success at remaining in power for 15 years and its downfall.
Author : Yoichi Funabashi,G. John Ikenberry
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815737681
A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Japan's challenges and opportunities in a new era of uncertainty Henry Kissinger wrote a few years ago that Japan has been for seven decades “an important anchor of Asian stability and global peace and prosperity.” However, Japan has only played this anchoring role within an American-led liberal international order built from the ashes of World War II. Now that order itself is under siege, not just from illiberal forces such as China and Russia but from its very core, the United States under Donald Trump. The already evident damage to that order, and even its possible collapse, pose particular challenges for Japan, as explored in this book. Noted experts survey the difficult position that Japan finds itself in, both abroad and at home. The weakening of the rules-based order threatens the very basis of Japan's trade-based prosperity, with the unreliability of U.S. protection leaving Japan vulnerable to an economic and technological superpower in China and at heightened risk from a nuclear North Korea. Japan's response to such challenges are complicated by controversies over constitutional revision and the dark aspects of its history that remain a source of tension with its neighbors. The absence of virulent strains of populism have helped to provide Japan with a stable platform from which to pursue its international agenda. Yet with a rapidly aging population, widening intergenerational inequality, and high levels of public debt, the sources of Japan's stability—its welfare state and immigration policies—are becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Each of the book's chapters is written by a specialist in the field, and the book benefits from interviews with more than 40 Japanese policymakers and experts, as well as a public opinion survey. The book outlines today's challenges to the liberal international order, proposes a role for Japan to uphold, reform and shape the order, and examines Japan's assets as well as constraints as it seeks to play the role of a proactive stabilizer in the Asia-Pacific.