Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan (4 Vols.)

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35739-6
Verlag: Brill

Medienkombination, Englisch, 1684 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 3220 g

Reihe: Critical Readings

This work collects decades of the best published scholarship in English on the unequivocally most successful political party in Japanese history: the Liberal Democratic Party (the LDP). Governing Japan for almost the entirety of the post-war period, the LDP also has a claim to be the most successful political party in any post-war democracy. Seminal articles in this collection explore the key aspects of the LDP: the party’s evolution since its founding in 1955; key facets of the LDP’s internal organization including factions and koenkai; the LDP in policy-making, including its relationship with the bureaucracy and interest groups, as well as its policy-making committee apparatus; and, party leadership, including the premierships of Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pekkanen, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Robert J. Pekkanen


Part 1 The Origin and Development of the LDP

1 The Creation of the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955

Masaru Kohno

2 The LDP

Masumi Junnosuke

3 Political Parties

Hitoshi Abe, Muneyuki Shindo and Sadafumi Kawato

4 Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics in Japan

Chalmers Johnson

5 The Evolution of the LDP’s Intraparty Politics

Masaru Kohno

6 Rational Foundations for the Organization of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan

Masaru Kohno

7 Creative Conservatism: Public Policy in Japan

T. J. Pempel

8 Party Organization

J. Mark Ramseyer and Frances M. Rosenbluth

9 The Conservative Policy Line and the Development of Patterned Pluralism

Michio Muramatsu and Ellis S. Krauss

10 Conclusion: Democracy without Competition

Ethan Scheiner

11 The Politics of Party: The Liberal Democrats and their Rivals

J. A. A. Stockwin

12 Epilogue: LDP Rule in the 1980s

Masumi Junnosuke

13 Introduction: Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party Dominant Regimes

T. J. Pempel

14 Over-Nominating Candidates, Undermining the Party: The Collective Action Problem under SNTV in Japan

Kuniaki Nemoto, Robert Pekkanen and Ellis Krauss

15 Party Strategy or Candidate Strategy: How Does the LDP Run the Right Number of Candidates in Japan’s Multi-Member Districts?

Steven R. Reed

16 Manipulating Electoral Rules to Manufacture Single-Party Dominance

Kenneth Mori McElwain

Part 2 The Pillars of the LDP

A The Koenkai

17 The Politics of Party Endorsement

Gerald L. Curtis

18 The Koenkai

Hitoshi Abe, Muneyuki Shindo and Sadafumi Kawato

19 Organizing One’s Support Base under the SNTV: The Case of Japanese Koenkai

Jean-Marie Bouissou

20 The Effect of Electoral Reforms on Campaign Practices in Japan: Putting New Wine into Old Bottles

Ray Christensen

21 The Liberal Democratic Party in Time

Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen

22 The Koenkai: Origins and Development of a Vote-Mobilization Machine

Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen

23 The Liberal Democratic Party Out of Time?

Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen

24 How a Diet Member’s Koenkai Adapts to Social and Political Changes

Otake Hideo

b Factions

25 The Factions

Nathaniel B. Thayer

26 Factional Competition for the Party Endorsement: The Case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party

Gary W. Cox and Frances M. Rosenbluth

27 Factional Dynamics in Japan’s LDP since Political Reform: Continuity and Change

Cheol Hee Park

C Personnel Management and the Policy-Making Process

28 Making a Cabinet

Nathaniel B. Thayer

29 The Liberal Democratic Party

John Creighton Campbell

30 The Specter of Crisis

Kent E. Calder

31 The Liberal Democratic Party: The Organization of Political Power

Gerald L. Curtis

32 From Pork to Policy: The Rise of Programmatic Campaigning in Japanese Elections

Amy Catalinac

33 The Prime Minister and Party Politics: The LDP and the Opposition

Kenji Hayao

34 Nukaga Fukushiro: Climbing the Ladder to Influence

Yamada Masahiro

Part 3 Electoral Reform and the LDP

35 The End of One-Party Dominance

Gerald L. Curtis

36 Regime Shift: Japanese Politics in a Changing World Economy

T. J. Pempel

37 Forces for Political Reform: The Liberal Democratic Party’s Young Reformers and Ozawa Ichiro

Otake Hideo

38 Electoral Incentives in Mixed-Member Systems: Party, Posts, and Zombie Politicians in Japan

Robert Pekkanen, Benjamin Nyblade and Ellis S. Krauss

39 Party and Voter Dealignment: The LDP System Disintegrates

Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel

40 Electoral Incentives and Policy Preferences: Mixed Motives Behind Party Defections in Japan

Steven R. Reed and Ethan Scheiner

Part 4 The LDP after the End of the “’55 System”

A The Development of the LDP after the End of the “’55 System”

41 The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party

Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen

42 The Liberal Democratic Party at 50: Sources of Dominance and Changes in the Koizumi Era

Patrick Köllner

43 Locating the LDP and Koizumi in Policy Space: A Party System Ripe for Realignment

Leonard Schoppa

44 Storming the Castle: The Battle for Postal Reform in Japan

Patricia L. Maclachlan

45 Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of the LDP?

Ellis S. Krauss and Robert Pekkanen

46 Representation and Policymaking under LDP Administrations in the Post-1955 System

Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel

47 Conservatives and their Allies

Ian Neary

48 Between Pork and Productivity: The Collapse of the Liberal Democratic Party

T. J. Pempel

49 Avoiding a Two-Party System: The Liberal Democratic Party versus Duverger’s Law

Steven R. Reed and Kay Shimizu

50 The Liberal Democratic Party: An Explanation of Its Successes and Failures

Steven R. Reed

51 The Evolution of the LDP’s Electoral Strategy: Towards a More Coherent Political Party

Steven R. Reed

52 Japanese Politics under the LDP

Tomohito Shinoda

53 The Liberal Democratic Party: Still the Most Powerful Party in Japan

Ronald J. Hrebenar and Akira Nakamura

B The LDP under Prime Minister Jun’ichiro Koizumi

54 How Junichiro Koizumi Seized the Leadership of Japans Liberal Democratic Party

Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel

55 Koizumi’s Failed Revolution

Aurelia George Mulgan

56 Policy Dissension and Party Discipline: The July 2005 Vote on Postal Privatization in Japan

Kuniaki Nemoto, Ellis Krauss and Robert Pekkanen

57 Koizumi’s Top-Down Leadership in the Anti-Terrorism Legislation: The Impact of Political Institutional Changes

Tomohito Shinoda

58 Grading Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi’s Revolution: How Far Has the LDP’s Policymaking Changed?

Ko Mishima

C The LDP under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

59 The Abe Effect and Domestic Politics

Takashi Terada

60 The LDP’s Path Back to Power

Masahisa Endo, Robert Pekkanen, and Steven R. Reed

61 The LDP: Return to Dominance? Or a Golden Age Built on Sand?

Masahisa Endo and Robert J. Pekkanen

62 Epilogue: Developments under the Abe Cabinet

Tomohito Shinoda

63 Japan in 2014: All about Abe

Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen

64 Japan in 2015: More about Abe

Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert J. Pekkanen (Ph.D. 2002, Harvard) is Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA). Pekkanen has published widely on the LDP, including in the American Political Science Review and coauthored The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP (2011), and coedited The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems (2018) and Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election (2018).