Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan - From Pork to Foreign Policy

This book argues that Japanese politicians pay more attention to security issues nowadays because of the electoral reform.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Electoral systems, electoral strategies, and national security; 3. Measuring electoral strategies with thousands of candidate election manifestos; 4. Electoral strategies shifted from pork to policy; 5. Electoral strategies shifted to national security; 6. Electoral strategies of opposition focused on policy; 7. Impact on security policy; 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Amy Catalinac is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, Massachusetts. She earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2011 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University, as well as an Assistant Professor at Australian National University, Canberra. She has taken ten years of training in the Japanese language and has spent five years in Japan, where she has observed the election campaigns of politicians all over Japan and has conducted more than one hundred interviews with political actors at all levels of the Japanese government. Her earlier research was published in Foreign Policy Analysis, Politics and Policy, Japan Forum and Political Science.

Summary

This book is about the domestic politics of national security in Japan. It uses a mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches to show that Japanese politicians pay more attention to security issues nowadays as a result of the 1994 electoral reform, not because of China or North Korea.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Catalinac, Amy (Australian National University Catalinac, Catalinac Amy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107546455
• ISBN: 978-1-107-54645-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, International Relations, Defence strategy, planning & research, Political structure & processes, Military and defence strategy, Political structure and processes