Japanese electoral politics : creating a new party system / edited by Steven R. Reed.

Contributor(s):

Reed, Steven R, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies seriesPublisher: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0203458508
9780203458501
0415311403
9780415311403
9786610073023
6610073023

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Japanese electoral politics.DDC classification:

324.952/049 22

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Part I: The political context of the 1996 and 2000 elections -- 1: The 1993 election and the end of LDP one-party dominance / Steven R. Reed -- 2: Realignment between the 1993 and 1996 elections / Steven R. Reed -- 3: Realignment between the 1996 and 2000 elections / Steven R. Reed -- Part II: Four prefectural case studies -- 4: Political realignment in Nagano: Hata Tsutomu and the new opposition challenge the LDP / Ethan Scheiner -- 5: A local five-party alliance challenges the LDP in Hyogo / Karen E. Cox -- 6: Inheriting the 'conservative kingdom' in Ibaraki / Hulda Thâora-Sveinsdâottir -- 7: Kagoshima: the prefecture that realignment forgot / Robert Weiner -- Part III: Statistical analysis -- 8: Who won the 1996 election? / Steven R. Reed -- 9: Who won the 2000 election? / Steven R. Reed.