{"title":"Japan in 2015: More about Abe","authors":"Robert J. Pekkanen, Saadia M. Pekkanen","doi":"10.1525/AS.2016.56.1.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AS.2016.56.1.34","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2015 revolved around Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, who led his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to a resounding electoral victory in December 2014, thus opening the door for the LDP and its coalition partner Komeito to pass a major revision of Japan’s security policy, despite public outcry and over a fragmented field of opposition parties.","PeriodicalId":240152,"journal":{"name":"Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114737386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japan in 2014: All about Abe","authors":"Robert J. Pekkanen, Saadia M. Pekkanen","doi":"10.1525/AS.2015.55.1.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AS.2015.55.1.103","url":null,"abstract":"It was all about Abe in 2014. With few intra-party challengers, a divided and weak opposition, and a huge victory in a December snap election gamble, Japan’s Prime Minister Abe finds unusual scope to lead the nation both domestically as well as internationally in his chosen course of “proactive pacifism.”","PeriodicalId":240152,"journal":{"name":"Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130907407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The LDP’s Path Back to Power","authors":"Masahisa Endo, Robert J. Pekkanen, S. Reed","doi":"10.1057/9781137346124_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346124_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240152,"journal":{"name":"Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128640292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Liberal Democratic Party: An Explanation of Its Successes and Failures","authors":"S. Reed","doi":"10.4324/9780203829875-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203829875-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240152,"journal":{"name":"Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan","volume":"336 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122745985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Liberal Democratic Party","authors":"S. Reed","doi":"10.4324/9780203829875.CH2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203829875.CH2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240152,"journal":{"name":"Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124705265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Liberal Democratic Party at 50: Sources of Dominance and Changes in the Koizumi Era","authors":"Patrick Köllner","doi":"10.1093/SSJJ/JYL026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/SSJJ/JYL026","url":null,"abstract":"More than 50 years after its founding, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is still going strong. It has become the dominant party within a democratic setting. How did the LDP manage to cling to its dominant position for such a long time? And to what extent has the LDP changed colours under the leadership of Koizumi Jun'ichiro? This survey article attempts to answer these questions by focussing on the three dimensions of LDP dominance: electoral, parliamentary, and executive dominance. It argues that clientelist politics explain a good deal of the success of the LDP in the past. Such an orientation however became decreasingly effective and sustainable in a political environment that has changed significantly since the early 1990s. In the Koizumi era, the LDP managed to rise again to the challenges posed to its dominance by appealing directly to voters, by optimizing electoral cooperation, and by making efforts to centralize policymaking. Whether these more recent approaches to maintaining LDP dominance can be sustained, however, remains an open question.","PeriodicalId":240152,"journal":{"name":"Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129746205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electoral Incentives and Policy Preferences: Mixed Motives Behind Party Defections in Japan","authors":"S. Reed, Ethan Scheiner","doi":"10.1017/S0007123403000206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123403000206","url":null,"abstract":"Examining the 1993 split of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan offers an opportunity to gain greater insight into the impact of the various incentives that influence the behaviour of politicians. Surprisingly, previous analyses of the LDP split have been able to demonstrate only weak evidence of any electoral connection driving politicians' decisions. However, by also examining the role of policy preferences (support for reform) and utilizing interaction terms, our analysis takes into account the fact that politicians at different stages in their careers and facing different sorts of electorates respond to electoral factors in very different ways. Our findings thus confirm the importance of the electoral connection. We are also able to add that a variety of other incentives also shape political behaviour and that politicians do not necessarily all respond to similar stimuli in the same way.","PeriodicalId":240152,"journal":{"name":"Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134351605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factional Dynamics in Japan’s LDP since Political Reform: Continuity and Change","authors":"Cheol Park","doi":"10.1525/AS.2001.41.3.428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/AS.2001.41.3.428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":240152,"journal":{"name":"Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125039016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Electoral Reforms on Campaign Practices in Japan: Putting New Wine into Old Bottles","authors":"Ray Christensen","doi":"10.2307/2645647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2645647","url":null,"abstract":"In 1993, Japanese politics entered a period of turmoil and upheaval. Along with a variety of coalition governments and the creation of new political parties, promises of various types of reform have been legion. The first major reform of this period was the decision in 1994 to create a new election system for Japan. Reformers promised that the single-member districts of this new system would lead to the creation of two centrist political parties. They also promised that these two parties would contest elections based on issues, presenting voters a real choice between two mainstream parties. The results of the first election held under this system in 1996 raise doubts about the promised effects of the reforms. In a series of 49 interviews with politicians and campaign operatives conducted in seven of Japan's 47 prefectures, I found that politicians have not been campaigning based on issues. The promised change did not occur for three reasons. First is the continuity of many strict campaign regulations in Japan that make it difficult for candidates to make any general appeal (issue-oriented or otherwise) to the voters. Second, the drawing of district boundaries for the new single-member election districts created opportunities for politicians to switch parties opportunistically in order to secure a party nomination in their preferred district. This switching undercut the already weak claims of significant ideological or policy differences among the parties. Third, new district boundaries separated","PeriodicalId":240152,"journal":{"name":"Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130820418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}