Party Politics in Japan - Political Chaos and Stalemate in the 21st Century

List of contents

1. Japan’s Changing Party System: An Introduction 2. The Rules of the Election Game in Japan 3. Japanese Political Finance and Its Dark Side 4. From Would-be ‘Third Force’ to Governing Party: The Triumph and Fall of The Democratic Party of Japan 5. The Liberal Democratic Party: the Persistent Ruling Party of Japan 6. The New Komei Party: Japan’s Buddhist Party and LDP’s Coalition Partner 7. The Fall of the DPJ and Return of the LDP to Power: The December 2012 House Elections 8. The Second Party System and the Future of Japanese Politics

Product details

• Authors: Ronald J. Nakamura Hrebenar
• Assisted by: Ronald J. Hrebenar (Editor), Hrebenar Ronald J. (Editor), Akira Nakamura (Editor), Nakamura Akira (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2014
• EAN: 9781138013933
• ISBN: 978-1-138-01393-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Elections & referenda, Political parties and party platforms, Elections and referenda / suffrage, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General