Japan Decides 2012

Japan Decides 2012
Title Japan Decides 2012 PDF eBook
Author R. Pekkanen
Publisher Springer
Pages 375
Release 2013-07-25
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1137346124

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The 2012 election in Japan ejected the governing DPJ and returned the LDP overwhelmingly to power while brand new parties pulled in millions of voters. This book explains what happened, why it happened and what it means. International experts analyze the election results, parties strategies, gender issues, policy implications and more.

Japan Decides 2014

Japan Decides 2014
Title Japan Decides 2014 PDF eBook
Author Robert J. Pekkanen
Publisher Springer
Pages 273
Release 2016-01-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 113755200X

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Collecting original and high-quality analysis by top scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia, and Europe, this volume analyzes the results of the 2014 election, examining each of the major political parties, central policy issues, campaign practices, and considers how the results were used as a mandate for massive policy reform.

Japan Decides 2014

Japan Decides 2014
Title Japan Decides 2014 PDF eBook
Author Robert J. Pekkanen
Publisher Springer
Pages 306
Release 2016-01-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 113755200X

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Collecting original and high-quality analysis by top scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia, and Europe, this volume analyzes the results of the 2014 election, examining each of the major political parties, central policy issues, campaign practices, and considers how the results were used as a mandate for massive policy reform.

Japan Decides 2017

Japan Decides 2017
Title Japan Decides 2017 PDF eBook
Author Robert J. Pekkanen
Publisher Springer
Pages 361
Release 2018-05-30
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3319764756

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This third volume in the Japan Decides series remains the premier venue for scholarly research on Japanese elections. Putting a spotlight on the 2017 general election, the contributors discuss the election results, party politics, coalition politics with Komeito, the cabinet, constitutional revision, new opposition parties, and Abenomics. Additionally, the volume looks at campaigning, public opinion, media, gender issues and representation, North Korea and security issues, inequality, immigration and cabinet scandals. With a topical focus and timely coverage of the latest dramatic changes in Japanese politics, the volume will appeal to researchers and policy experts alike, and will also make a welcome addition to courses on Japanese politics, comparative politics and electoral politics.

Japan Decides 2021

Japan Decides 2021
Title Japan Decides 2021 PDF eBook
Author Robert J. Pekkanen
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 404
Release 2022-11-30
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3031113241

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Recent elections in Japan have been dramatic, and the 2021 general election was no exception. Worldwide turmoil caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as domestic uncertainty following the resignation of long-serving Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, left many voters and political observers wondering whether his successors were up to the task of leading the country through the crisis. In the end, the LDP and coalition partner Kōmeitō eked out an electoral victory—but one that masks important changes in the party system and nuanced changes in voter behavior and preferences. This fourth volume in the Japan Decides series features a comprehensive collection of analyses from leading experts, covering the legacy of Abe’s tenure in office, the state of the LDP and other parties, the impact of COVID-19 and the postponed 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, and many other important topics in contemporary party politics and domestic and foreign policy.

Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan

Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan
Title Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan PDF eBook
Author Matthew M. Carlson
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 132
Release 2018-03-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1501715666

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Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan. Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan makes sense of the scandals that have plagued Japanese politics for more than half a century and attempts to show how reforms have evolved to counter the problems. What causes political corruption to become more or less serious over time? they ask. The authors examine major political corruption scandals beginning with the early postwar period until the present day as one way to make sense of how the nature of corruption changes over time. They also consider bureaucratic corruption and scandals, violations of electoral law, sex scandals, and campaign finance regulations and scandals. In the end, Carlson and Reed write, though Japanese politics still experiences periodic scandals, the political reforms of 1994 have significantly reduced the levels of political corruption. The basic message is that reform can reduce corruption. The causes and consequences of political corruption in Japan, they suggest, are much like those in other consolidated democracies.

The Operation of the Japanese Electoral System since 1994

The Operation of the Japanese Electoral System since 1994
Title The Operation of the Japanese Electoral System since 1994 PDF eBook
Author Kazuaki Nagatomi
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 283
Release 2021-11-24
Genre Political Science
ISBN 981163985X

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This research explores one of the baffling mysteries in contemporary non-Western democracies. The conversion to a mixed system of the first-past-the-post system and proportional representation for the Japanese House of Representatives in 1994 has not realised the widely spread desire for recurrent changes of government, as the Liberal Democratic Party have maintained their grip. Dr Nagatomi monitors Japanese politics with the theories and methodologies of electoral geography. From a comparative perspective, the operation of the electoral system can mostly be explained by the geographical distributions of party supports, the arrangements of electoral constituencies and the candidacies of parties. Packed with a volume of the analyses unpublished elsewhere, this book will offer food for thought to political scientists, Asian watchers and broadly comparative researchers.