Contemporary Japanese politics : institutional changes and power shifts
Tomohito Shinoda (Author)
Decentralized policy-making power in Japan had developed under the long reign of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In the1990s, institutional changes were introduced, fundamentally altering Japan's modern political landscape. Tomohito Shinoda tracks these slow yet steady changes to today in the operation of and tensions between Japan's political parties and the public's behavior in Japanese elections, as well as in the government's ability to coordinate diverse policy preferences and respond to political crises. Electoral reform in 1994 resulted in the selection of Junichiro Koiz
eBook, English, 2013
Columbia University Press, New York, 2013