Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, Volume 1

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35742-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

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

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

1 Introduction

Paolo Cozzo, Andrea Merlotti, Andrea Nicolotti

2 Présentation : Le Saint Suaire entre pratiques dévotionnelles et stratégies politiques

Bernard Dompnier

3 The Acquisition of the Shroud by the House of Savoy: Documentary Evidence

Andrea Nicolotti

4 Le Saint Suaire, les Savoie et Chambéry (1453-1515)

Laurent Ripart

5 Centre dynastique, religiosité et mémoire urbaine : Chambéry et le Saint Suaire du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle

Frédéric Meyer

6 The First Exhibitions of the Shroud in Piedmont and Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy

Laura Gaffuri

7 A Relic to See and Touch: the Sensory Dimension of the Shroud in Court (XVI-XX Centuries)

Paolo Cozzo

8 The Holy Shroud between the Court of Savoy and the City of Turin: The Ostensions in Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1630-1831)

Andrea Merlotti

9 Turin and the Holy Shroud: Supplies of Wheat and Management of Public Order during the Ostensions (XVII-XVIII Centuries)

Davide De Franco

10 Syndonic Panegyrics in the 17th Century

Luisella Giachino

11 “Accesi di devoto affetto verso questa meravigliosa reliquia”: The Roman Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Shroud’s Devotional Choices and Strategies of Cult Promotion (17th-18th Centuries)

Alessandro Serra

12 The Shroud in the Ceremonial Policy of the House of Savoy between the End of the 16th Century and the 18th Century

Franca Varallo

13 “Se bene è nella città di Torino, nondimeno in qualche parte ne gode Roma”: Some Considerations on the (Mis)Fortune of Savoyard Iconography in Papal Rome

Paola Caretta

14 The Old Piedmont becomes the New Italy: the Ostensions for the Nuptials of the Crown Princes Vittorio Emanuele and Umberto (1842-1868)

Pierangelo Gentile

15 Copies of the Holy Shroud for the Court of King Philip II of Spain (1527-1598)

Almudena Pérez de Tudela Gabaldón

16 Museum versus Chapel of the Holy Shroud. The Octagonal Hall of the Palace of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy and King of Cyprus

Paolo Cornaglia

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert J. Pekkanen (Ph.D. 2002, Harvard) is Professor at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA). Pekkanen has published widely on the LDP, including in the American Political Science Review and a coauthored book, and coedited two books on Japanese elections.