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Democracy without competition in Japan : = opposition failure in a one-party dominant state /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Democracy without competition in Japan :/ Ethan Scheiner.
Reminder of title:	opposition failure in a one-party dominant state /
Author:	Scheiner, Ethan,
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Democracy - Japan. -
Subject:	Japan - Foreign relations - 1912-1945. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511610660
ISBN:	9780511610660 (ebook)

Democracy without competition in Japan : = opposition failure in a one-party dominant state /
Scheiner, Ethan,1968-

Democracy without competition in Japan :opposition failure in a one-party dominant state /Ethan Scheiner. - 1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The importance of party competition and a model of party competition failure -- Opposition failure in Japan : background and explanations -- Clientelism and its determinants -- The impact of clientelism and centralized government financial structure : comparative analysis -- Local opposition failure in Japan -- National-level opposition failure : the impact of subnational-level weakness -- Political economy changes and their impact on party systems : comparative analysis -- Parallel party systems : political economy changes and the limits to anti-clientelist appeals in Japan -- The problem of organization and coherence in top-down party formation -- Conclusion : democracy without competition.

Despite its democratic structure, Japan's government has been dominated by a single party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 1955. This book offers an explanation for why, even in the face of great dissatisfaction with the LDP, no opposition party has been able to offer itself as a credible challenger in Japan. Understanding such failure is important for many reasons, from its effect on Japanese economic policy to its implications for what facilitates democratic responsiveness more broadly. The principal explanations for opposition failure in Japan focus on the country's culture and electoral system. This book offers a new interpretation, arguing that a far more plausible explanation rests on the predominance in Japan of clientelism, combined with a centralized government structure and electoral protection for groups that benefit from clientelism. While the central case in the book is Japan, the analysis is also comparative and applies the framework cross-nationally.

ISBN: 9780511610660 (ebook)Subjects--Corporate Names:

1441807
Jiyū Minshutō.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

803472
Democracy
--Japan.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

585293
Japan
--Foreign relations--1912-1945.

LC Class. No.: JQ1681 / .S34 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 324.252

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