The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP : : Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions / / Ellis S. Krauss, Robert J. Pekkanen.

After holding power continuously from its inception in 1955 (with the exception of a ten-month hiatus in 1993-1994), Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost control of the national government decisively in September 2009. Despite its defeat, the LDP remains the most successful political par...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 11 tables, 31 charts/graphs, 2 maps, 2 line drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. The Liberal Democratic Party in Time
  • Chapter 2. The Kōenkai
  • Chapter 3. The Kōenkai Today
  • Chapter 4. Factions under the Single Nontransferable Vote System
  • Chapter 5. Factions Today
  • Chapter 6. The Policy Affairs Research Council and Policymaking under the '55 System
  • Chapter 7. The Policy Affairs Research Council after Reform
  • Chapter 8. Party Leadership in the '55 System
  • Chapter 9. The Changing Role of Party Leadership
  • Chapter 10. The Liberal Democratic Party out of Time?
  • Coded Interviews
  • References
  • Index