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Democracy without competition in Japan : opposition failure in a one-party dominant state /

Explains why no opposition party has been able to offer itself as a sustained challenger in Japan.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheiner, Ethan, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The importance of party competition and a model of party competition failure
  • Opposition failure in Japan : background and explanations
  • Clientelism and its determinants
  • The impact of clientelism and centralized government financial structure : comparative analysis
  • Local opposition failure in Japan
  • National-level opposition failure : the impact of subnational-level weakness
  • Political economy changes and their impact on party systems : comparative analysis
  • Parallel party systems : political economy changes and the limits to anti-clientelist appeals in Japan
  • The problem of organization and coherence in top-down party formation
  • Conclusion : democracy without competition.