Japanese electoral politics
Subtitle: creating a new party system
By: edited by Steven R. Reed.
Contributors: Reed, Steven R., 1947-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Political parties -- Japan.; Elections -- Japan.; Japan -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The political context of the 1996 and 2000 elections; title: 1: The 1993 election and the end of LDP dominance (Reed); title: 2: Realignment between the 1993 and 1996 elections (Reed); title: 3: Realignment between the 1996 and 2000 elections (Reed); title: Part II: Four prefectural case studies; title: 4: Political realignment in Nagano: Hata Tsutomu and the new opposition challenge the LDP (Ethan Scheiner); title: 5: A local five-party alliance challenges the LDP in Hyogo (Karen Cox); title: 6: Inheriting the 'conservative kingdom' in Ibaraki (Hulda Thora-Sveinsdottir); title: 7: Kagoshima: the prefecture that realignment forgot (Robert Weiner); title: Part III: Analysis; title: 8: Who won the 1996 election? (Reed); title: 9: Who won the 2000 election? (Reed).