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

Informationen zum Autor Robert D. Eldridge is tenured associate professor at Osaka University. Klappentext 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. In addition to discussing the reasons for the resiliency of factions, he discusses in great detail the history of and personalities within the near-dozen factions of the LDP. Zusammenfassung Translation of: Habatsu to tatoka jidai. 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Watanabe Tsuneo
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9780739173893
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7389-3
• Seiten: 292
• Serie: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Political structure & processes, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Political structure and processes