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008			960624s1997 njua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 96026393
020			_a0691026297 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a0691015961 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm35008132
035			_a(NNC)1960855
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050	0	0	_aJQ1698.A1 _bK64 1997
082	0	0	_a324.252 _220 _bKOJ
100	1		_aKohno, Masaru _d1962-
245	1	0	_aJapan's postwar party politics / _cMasaru Kohno.
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. : _bPrinceton University Press; _cc1997.
300			_axii, 172 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
365			_aUS$ _b26.95
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and indexes.
505	0	0	_g1. _tIntroduction -- _g2. _tQuestioning Conventional Approaches -- _g3. _tThe Politics of Electoral Reform, 1945-1947 -- _g4. _tCoalition Building under the Pre-1955 Multiparty System -- _g5. _tThe Creation of the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955 -- _g6. _tThe Evolution of the LDP's Intraparty Politics -- _g7. _tPost-1955 Changes in the Japanese Party System -- _g8. _tThe Political Change in 1993 -- _g9. _tConclusion.
520			_aIn this sophisticated theoretical work, Masaru Kohno presents a systematic reexamination of the evolution of party politics in Japan since the end of the Second World War. Because of the long one-party dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan's parliamentary democracy has often been viewed as unique in the developed world, and most of the existing studies of Japanese party politics have addressed such determinants as its political culture, historical background, and socio-ideological cleavages.
520	8		_aAccording to the author, these explanations do not adequately account for some of the most important changes that took place in Japanese party politics during the post-war period.
520	8		_aThis study advances an alternative set of interpretations based on a microanalytic approach that highlights the incentive and bargaining power of individual political actors, and their competitive and strategic behavior under existing institutional constraints. According to Kohno, the evolution of political life in postwar Japan depends on the same factors that are acknowledged to be at work in other industrialized nations.
520	8		_aHe reveals, through detailed case studies of government formation processes and statistical examinations of candidate nomination patterns, that the microanalytic approach can establish forward-looking and internally consistent interpretations of the postwar development of Japanese party politics.
520	8		_aBecause Japan has usually been treated as a country of unique cultural, historical, and societal characteristics, the analyses of this study point to the broader applicability of the microanalytic approach in the field of comparative politics, especially for the exploration of party competition in advanced industrial democracies.
650		0	_aPolitical parties _zJapan _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aJapan _xPolitics and government _y1945-
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