How electoral reform boomeranged
"How Electoral Reform Boomeranged presents the research and insights of six authors concerning the first general election in Japan's House of Representatives since the passage in 1994 of a political and electoral reform law. The October 1996 election was seen by reformers as a litmus test for the new law, which they thought would alter the style of campaigning in Japan. Campaign strategies dependent on the clout of an individual candidate's koenkai, or personal support group, were expected to give way to strategies emphasizing party-based electioneering." "The essays in this volume conclude that actual campaigning style remained mostly unchanged."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1998
Japan Center for International Exchange ; Distributed worldwide by Brookings Institution Press, Tokyo, New York, ©1998