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"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"--Back cover

Front Matter -- Copyright page /Robert J. Pekkanen -- Introduction /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Origin and Development of the LDP /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Creation of the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955 /Masaru Kohno -- The LDP /Junnosuke Masumi -- Political Parties /Hitoshi Abe , Muneyuki Shindō and Sadafumi Kawato -- Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics in Japan /Chalmers Johnson -- The Evolution of the LDP's Intraparty Politics /Masaru Kohno -- Rational Foundations for the Organization of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan /Masaru Kohno -- Creative Conservatism: Public Policy in Japan /T. J. Pempel -- Party Organization /J. Mark Ramseyer and Frances M. Rosenbluth -- The Conservative Policy Line and the Development of Patterned Pluralism /Michio Muramatsu and Ellis S. Krauss -- Conclusion: Democracy without Competition /Ethan Scheiner -- The Politics of Party: The Liberal Democrats and their Rivals /J. A. A. Stockwin -- Epilogue: LDP Rule in the 1980s /Junnosuke Masumi -- Introduction: Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party Dominant Regimes /T.J. Pempel -- Over-Nominating Candidates, Undermining the Party: The Collective Action Problem under SNTV in Japan /Kuniaki Nemoto , Robert Pekkanen and Ellis Krauss -- Party Strategy or Candidate Strategy: How Does the LDP Run the Right Number of Candidates in Japan's Multi-Member Districts? /Steven R. Reed -- Manipulating Electoral Rules to Manufacture Single-Party Dominance /Kenneth Mori McElwain.

Front Matter -- Copyright page /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Pillars of the LDP /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Koenkai /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Politics of Party Endorsement /Gerald L. Curtis -- The Kōenkai /Hitoshi Abe , Muneyuki Shindō and Sadafumi Kawato -- Organizing One's Support Base under the SNTV: The Case of Japanese Koenkai /Jean-Marie Bouissou -- The Effect of Electoral Reforms on Campaign Practices in Japan: Putting New Wine into Old Bottles /Ray Christensen -- The Liberal Democratic Party in Time /Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Kōenkai: Origins and Development of a Vote-Mobilization Machine /Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Liberal Democratic Party Out of Time? /Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen -- How a Diet Member's Koenkai Adapts to Social and Political Changes /Hideo Otake -- Factions /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Factions /Nathaniel B. Thayer -- Factional Competition for the Party Endorsement: The Case of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party /Gary W. Cox and Frances M. Rosenbluth -- Factional Dynamics in Japan's LDP since Political Reform: Continuity and Change /Cheol Hee Park.

Front Matter -- Copyright page /Robert J. Pekkanen -- Personnel Management and the Policy-Making Process /Robert J. Pekkanen -- Making a Cabinet /Nathaniel B. Thayer -- The Liberal Democratic Party /John Creighton Campbell -- The Specter of Crisis /Kent E. Calder -- The Liberal Democratic Party: The Organization of Political Power /Gerald L. Curtis -- From Pork to Policy: The Rise of Programmatic Campaigning in Japanese Elections /Amy Catalinac -- The Prime Minister and Party Politics: The LDP and the Opposition /Kenji Hayao -- Nukaga Fukushiro: Climbing the Ladder to Influence /Masahiro Yamada -- Electoral Reform and the LDP /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The End of One-Party Dominance /Gerald L. Curtis -- Regime Shift: Japanese Politics in a Changing World Economy /T. J. Pempel -- Forces for Political Reform: The Liberal Democratic Party's Young Reformers and Ozawa Ichirō /Otake Hideo -- Electoral Incentives in Mixed-Member Systems: Party, Posts, and Zombie Politicians in Japan /Robert Pekkanen , Benjamin Nyblade and Ellis S. Krauss -- Party and Voter Dealignment: The LDP System Disintegrates /Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel -- Electoral Incentives and Policy Preferences: Mixed Motives Behind Party Defections in Japan /Steven R. Reed and Ethan Scheiner.

Front Matter -- Copyright page /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The LDP after the End of the"'55 System" /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Development of the LDP after the End of the "'55 System" /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Rise and Fall of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party /Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Liberal Democratic Party at 50: Sources of Dominance and Changes in the Koizumi Era /Patrick Köllner -- Locating the LDP and Koizumi in Policy Space: A Party System Ripe for Realignment /Leonard Schoppa -- Storming the Castle: The Battle for Postal Reform in Japan /Patricia L. Maclachlan -- Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of the LDP? /Ellis S. Krauss and Robert Pekkanen -- Representation and Policymaking under LDP Administrations in the Post-1955 System /Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel -- Conservatives and their Allies /Ian Neary -- Between Pork and Productivity: The Collapse of the Liberal Democratic Party /T. J. Pempel -- Avoiding a Two-Party System: The Liberal Democratic Party versus Duverger's Law /Steven R. Reed and Kay Shimizu -- The Liberal Democratic Party: An Explanation of Its Successes and Failures /Steven R. Reed -- The Evolution of the LDP's Electoral Strategy: Towards a More Coherent Political Party /Steven R. Reed -- Japanese Politics under the LDP /Tomohito Shinoda -- The Liberal Democratic Party: Still the Most Powerful Party in Japan /Ronald J. Hrebenar and Akira Nakamura -- The LDP under Prime Minister Jun'ichiro Koizumi /Robert J. Pekkanen -- How Junichiro Koizumi Seized the Leadership of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party /Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel -- Koizumi's Failed Revolution /Aurelia George Mulgan -- Policy Dissension and Party Discipline: The July 2005 Vote on Postal Privatization in Japan /Kuniaki Nemoto , Ellis Krauss and Robert Pekkanen -- Koizumi's Top-Down Leadership in the Anti-Terrorism Legislation: The Impact of Political Institutional Changes /Tomohito Shinoda -- Grading Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi's Revolution: How Far Has the LDP's Policymaking Changed? /Ko Mishima -- The LDP under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe /Robert J. Pekkanen -- The Abe Effect and Domestic Politics /Takashi Terada -- The LDP's Path Back to Power /Masahisa Endo , Robert Pekkanen and Steven R. Reed -- The LDP: Return to Dominance? Or a Golden Age Built on Sand? /Masahisa Endo and Robert J. Pekkanen -- Epilogue: Developments under the Abe Cabinet /Tomohito Shinoda -- Japan in 2014: All about Abe /Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen -- Japan in 2015: More about Abe /Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen -- Back Matter -- Index of Names /Robert J. Pekkanen.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introduction -- 1: Introduction: Abe on a Roll at the Polls -- Summary of the Chapters -- Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Political Parties -- Part III Campaign and Issues -- References -- 2: Japanese Politics Between 2014 and 2017: The Search for an Opposition Party in the Age of Abe -- Overview -- Changes in the Electoral System -- Reduction in the Size of the Legislature to 465 Seats -- Voting Age Lowered from 20 to 18 -- Four Elections and a "Funeral" -- The 2016 House of Councillors Election -- The July 2016 Tokyo Gubernatorial Election -- The 2017 Tokyo Prefectural Assembly Election -- Abe Reelection as LDP Party President -- Defections from the Democratic Party -- Calling the Election -- References -- 3: The 2017 Election Results: An Earthquake, a Typhoon, and Another Landslide -- The Opposition Splits on the Constitutional Fault Line -- The Results: Déjà Vu All Over Again (Again) -- Nationwide Domination -- Continued Rural-Urban Disparities in SSD Competition -- Possibility of Opposition Taking Seats in Urban Districts? -- Possibility of the Opposition Picking Off Other LDP Seats? -- Turnout Remains Tepid -- Conclusions: Can a Status Quo Election Portend Future Changes? -- References -- Part II: Political Parties -- 4: Kōmeitō 2017: New Complications -- What Happened to the Governing Coalition Between 2014 and 2017? -- Sōka Gakkai Member Attitudes Toward Kōmeitō: A Spectrum of Opinions -- Kōmeitō's 2017 Election Campaign -- Election Results -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: The Opposition: From Third Party Back to Third Force -- Coalescing Around the Democrats -- A New Local Party in Tokyo -- Koike Goes National -- Democrats Defect to Party of Hope, Constitutional Democratic Party.

The Japanese developmental state catapulted Japan into economic prominence. However, almost just as world attention focused on Japan's distinctive model, the era of the developmental state was drawing to a close. A generation of scholars has ably documented the story of Japan's developmental state by focusing on industrial policy. They chronicled how a strong bureaucracy buffered by insulation from politicians lay at the heart of the developmental state. As Joseph Wong points out in the introductory essay to this special issue, scholars have also argued that the developmental state contained within itself the seeds of its own dismantling.1Since the 1960s, formal powers had been stripped from the bureaucracy, leaving it increasingly dependent upon "administrative guidance" not legally enforceable.2By the late 1980s, the very success of the developmental state had eroded the powers of the bureaucracy to set industrial policy.

Through more than 40 chapters by leading specialists, the Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics examines major aspects of both domestic politics and international relations. In addition to providing a broad overview of contemporary Japanese politics, the chapters are united by a shared question: what is the nature and quality of Japanese democracy? Contributors consider this matter alongside their individual subjects, which together comprehensively address the central research topics of the field.

"Book Abstract and Keywords: The study of Japanese politics has flourished over the past several decades. This Handbook provides a state-of-the-field overview for students and researchers of Japanese. The volume also serves to introduce Japanese politics to readers less familiar with Japan. In addition, the volume has a theme of "evaluating Japan's democracy." Taken as a whole, the volume provides a positive evaluation of the state of Japan's democracy. The volume is divided into two parts, roughly corresponding to domestic Japanese politics and Japan's international politics. Within the domestic politics part, there are four distinct sections: "Domestic Political Actors and Institutions," covering the Japanese Constitution, electoral systems, prime minister, Diet, bureaucracy, judiciary, and local government; "Political Parties and Coalitions," covering the Liberal Democratic Party, coalition government, Kōmeitō, and the political opposition; "Policymaking and the Public," covering the policymaking process, public opinion, civil society, and populism; and, "Political Economy and Social Policy," covering industrial, energy, social welfare, agricultural, monetary, and immigration policies, as well as social inequality. In the international relations part, there are four sections: "International Relations Frameworks," covering grand strategy, international organizations, and international status; "International Political Economy," covering trade, finance, foreign direct investment, the environment, economic regionalism, and the linkage between security and economics; "International Security," covering remilitarization, global and regional security multilateralism, nuclear nonproliferation, naval power, space security, and cybersecurity; and, "Foreign Relations" covering Japan's relations with the United States, China, South Korea, ASEAN, India, the European Union, and Russia. Keywords: international relations, comparative politics, democracy, international order, alliances, space security, elections, Liberal Democratic Party, multilateralism, remilitarization, international organizations, populism, civil society, coalitions, political parties, trade, finance monetary policy, foreign direct investment, cybersecurity"--

The study of Japanese politics has flourished over the past several decades. This Handbook provides a state-of-the-field overview for students and researchers of Japanese. The volume also serves to introduce Japanese politics to readers less familiar with Japan. In addition, the volume has a theme of "evaluating Japan's democracy." Taken as a whole, the volume provides a positive evaluation of the state of Japan's democracy. The volume is divided into two parts, roughly corresponding to domestic Japanese politics and Japan's international politics.