Japanese Democracy and Lessons for the United States - Eight Counterintuitive Lessons

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. One-party rule 3. Campaign regulations 4. Drawing the boundaries of election districts 5. Supreme Courts and election procedures 6. Corruption 7. Democracy and political instability 8. Acceptance of election results 9. Conclusion

About the author

Ray Christensen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, USA. His research focuses on aspects of Japanese elections including gender issues, gerrymandering, malapportionment, corruption, and electoral alliances.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ray Christensen, Christensen Ray
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780367440053
• ISBN: 978-0-367-44005-3
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Politics in Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage