Japan under the DPJ
Subtitle: the politics of transition and governance
By: edited by Kenji E. Kushida and Phillip Y. Lipscy
Contributors: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Publisher: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Stanford, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781931368339
Subjects: Political parties; Politics and government; Minshutō (1998- )
Other titles: Japan under the Democratic Party of Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The rise and fall of the Democratic Party of Japan / Kenji E. Kushida and Phillip Y. Lipscy; title: The nationalization of Japanese elections / Kenneth Mori McElwain; title: Appendix A: Alternative models of estimating the partisan swing; title: The electoral system and Japan's partial transformation: party system consolidation without policy realignment / Ethan Scheiner; title: The survival of "third parties" in Japan's mixed-member electoral system / Steven R. Reed; title: Electoral consequences of municipal mergers / Kay Shimizu; title: Building a party: candidate recruitment in the Democratic Party of Japan, 1996-2012 / Daniel M. Smith, Robert J. Pekkanen, Ellis S. Krauss; title: Appendix B: Party of origin of all DPJ candidates in house of representatives elections, 1996-2012; title: Appendix C: SMD contests with a Kōbo-recruited new DPJ candidate, 2000-12; title: The development of DPJ partisanship from a fraction to a majority (and back again?) / Yukio Maeda; title: Appendix D: Procedure for extracting news on the DPJ from the database; time-series diagnoses; title: A casualty of political transformation? The politics of energy efficiency in the Japanese transportation sector / Phillip Y. Lipscy; title: Information and communications technology (ICT) policy in a post-LDP Japan: caught between distributive politics and strategic policy again? / Kenji E. Kushida; title: Decentralization and the Democratic Party of Japan / Linda Hasunuma; title: The DPJ and women: the limited impact of the 2009 alternation of power on policy and governance / Alisa Gaunder; title: The Democratic Party of Japan's new (but failing) grand security strategy: from "reluctant realism" to "resentful realism"? / Christopher W. Hughes; title: The new Asianism: Japanese foreign policy under the Democratic Party of Japan / Daniel Sneider; title: The DPJ's political response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster / Kenji E. Kushida.