Japan's Postwar Party Politics

Japan's Postwar Party Politics PDF Author: Masaru Kohno
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ISBN: 9780691026299
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Book Description
This 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. He 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