How electoral reform boomeranged / edited by Otake Hideo.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Tokyo ; New York : Japan Center for International Exchange ; Washington, D.C. : distributed worldwide by the Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
Description
xxxi, 181 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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"How Electoral Reform Boomeranged presents the research and insights of six authors concerning the first general election in Japan's House of Representatives since the passage in 1994 of a political and electoral reform law. The October 1996 election was seen by reformers as a litmus test for the new law, which they thought would alter the style of campaigning in Japan. Campaign strategies dependent on the clout of an individual candidate's koenkai, or personal support group, were expected to give way to strategies emphasizing party-based electioneering." "The essays in this volume conclude that actual campaigning style remained mostly unchanged."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes
"Published in 1997 in Japanese as Seikai saihen no kenkyu (A study of political reorganization in Japan) by Yuhikaku, Tokyo, Japan"--T. p. verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • How a Diet member's Koenkai adapts to social and political changes / Otake Hideo
  • Nukaga Fukushiro : climbing the ladder to influence / Yamada Masahiro
  • The enduring campaign networks of Tokyo's Shitamachi District / Park Cheol Hee
  • Political realignment in Hyogo and Okayama / Tani Satomi
  • The end of competitive coexistence : large companies and their unions / Niwa Isao
  • Anatomy of the 1996 Lower House election / Kataoka Masaaki and Yamada Masahiro.
Other title(s)
Seikai saihen no kenkyū.
Subtitle on cover
  • Continuity in Japanese campaigning style
ISBN
4889070184
OCLC
39537687
RCP
  • H - U
  • H - S
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