LEADER 04195nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910459924103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-7600-3 010 $a0-8014-5887-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801458873 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080847 035 $a(OCoLC)956659119 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457630 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483256 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11317886 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483256 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528696 035 $a(PQKB)10421507 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138009 035 $a(DE-B1597)481716 035 $a(OCoLC)987921788 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801458873 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138009 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457630 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681705 035 $a(OCoLC)726824268 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080847 100 $a20091120d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChanging politics in Japan$b[electronic resource] /$fIkuo Kabashima and Gill Steel 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (202 p.) 225 1 $aCornell paperbacks 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50423-7 311 $a0-8014-4876-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Figures and Tables --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tNote on Exchange Rates --$t1. Introduction --$t2. Citizens and Elites in the Construction of the LDP System --$t3. Party and Voter Dealignment: The LDP System Disintegrates --$t4. Changing Media, Changing Politics --$t5. Citizens and the Prime Minister --$t6. Representation and Policymaking under LDP Administrations in the Post-1955 System --$t7. Voters and the Democratic Party of Japan --$t8. Afterword: Where to Now? --$tAppendix A. The National Diet --$tAppendix B. ASSK Survey Questions and Coding --$tAppendix C. The Japan Election Study II --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aChanging Politics in Japan is a fresh and insightful account of the profound changes that have shaken up the Japanese political system and transformed it almost beyond recognition in the last couple of decades. Ikuo Kabashima-a former professor who is now Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture-and Gill Steel outline the basic features of politics in postwar Japan in an accessible and engaging manner. They focus on the dynamic relationship between voters and elected or nonelected officials and describe the shifts that have occurred in how voters respond to or control political elites and how officials both respond to, and attempt to influence, voters. The authors return time and again to the theme of changes in representation and accountability.Kabashima and Steel set out to demolish the still prevalent myth that Japanese politics are a stagnant set of entrenched systems and interests that are fundamentally undemocratic. In its place, they reveal a lively and dynamic democracy, in which politicians and parties are increasingly listening to and responding to citizens' needs and interests and the media and other actors play a substantial role in keeping democratic accountability alive and healthy. Kabashima and Steel describe how all the political parties in Japan have adapted the ways in which they attempt to organize and channel votes and argue that contrary to many journalistic stereotypes the government is increasingly acting in the "the interests of citizens"-the median voter's preferences. 410 0$aCornell paperbacks. 606 $aPolitical parties$zJapan 606 $aPolitical culture$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xPolitics and government$y1989- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical parties 615 0$aPolitical culture 676 $a320.952 700 $aKabashima$b Ikuo$f1947-$01056109 701 $aSteel$b Gill$f1965-$0790251 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459924103321 996 $aChanging politics in Japan$92490205 997 $aUNINA