Japan's

Japan's Postwar Party Politics

By - Kohno, Masaru
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1997
ISBN 10 - 0691015961
ISBN 13 - 9780691015965
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Political parties
Shelf No - 15
Call Number - 324.252 KOH
Physical Description - xii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes - Includes Bibliographical References and Index.
Book Information
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.

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