Japan''s Backroom Politics - Factions in a Multiparty Age

Written by the controversial owner of the Yomiuri Shimbun when he was Japan’s leading political reporter, Japan’s Backroom Politics is the translation of a classic study of the rough and tumble of Japanese politics and Liberal Democratic Party factions in the first two decades of postwar Japan.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator's Preface
Introduction: The Defeated One: The Decline of Party Politicians
Chapter 1: The Backroom: Testimonies of Party Leadership Elections
Chapter 2: Popularity: Leadership and the People
Chapter 3: Money: The Basis for Politics
Chapter 4: Factions, Part 1: Steps to an Administration
Chapter 5: Factions, Part 2: Background of Leaders
Chapter 6: Multiparty Age: Undercurrents of the 1967 Elections
Chapter 7: The Myth of a Two-Party System: Recommendations for a Multiparty System
Chapter 8: The End of Backroom Politics: Administrations in a Multiparty Age
Afterword

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Robert D. Eldridge is tenured associate professor at Osaka University.

Zusammenfassung

Written by the controversial owner of the Yomiuri Shimbun when he was Japan’s leading political reporter, Japan’s Backroom Politics is the translation of a classic study of the rough and tumble of Japanese politics and Liberal Democratic Party factions in the first two decades of postwar Japan.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Watanabe Tsuneo
• Mitarbeit: Robert D. Eldridge (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780739186350
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8635-0
• Seiten: 292
• Serien: New Studies in Modern Japan; New Studies of Modern Japan; New Studies in Modern Japan
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Asian History, Political structure and processes