LEADER 04594nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910814017103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6002-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460029 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036192 035 $a(OCoLC)732957153 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468056 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000540910 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11361150 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540910 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493193 035 $a(PQKB)11316797 035 $a(DE-B1597)534412 035 $a(OCoLC)1129200435 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460029 035 $a(OCoLC)1179843952 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58226 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138177 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468056 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL762899 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138177 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036192 100 $a20100820d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rise and fall of Japan's LDP $epolitical party organizations as historical institutions /$fEllis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8014-7682-8 311 0 $a0-8014-4932-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tFigures and Tables --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tChapter 1. The Liberal Democratic Party in Time --$tChapter 2. The K?enkai --$tChapter 3. The K?enkai Today --$tChapter 4. Factions under the Single Nontransferable Vote System --$tChapter 5. Factions Today --$tChapter 6. The Policy Affairs Research Council and Policymaking under the '55 System --$tChapter 7. The Policy Affairs Research Council after Reform --$tChapter 8. Party Leadership in the '55 System --$tChapter 9. The Changing Role of Party Leadership --$tChapter 10. The Liberal Democratic Party out of Time? --$tCoded Interviews --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aAfter holding power continuously from its inception in 1955 (with the exception of a ten-month hiatus in 1993-1994), Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost control of the national government decisively in September 2009. Despite its defeat, the LDP remains the most successful political party in a democracy in the post-World War II period. In The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP, Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen shed light on the puzzle of the LDP's long dominance and abrupt defeat. Several questions about institutional change in party politics are at the core of their investigation: What incentives do different electoral systems provide? How do politicians adapt to new incentives? How much does structure determine behavior, and how much opportunity does structure give politicians to influence outcomes? How adaptable are established political organizations? The electoral system Japan established in 1955 resulted in a half-century of "one-party democracy." But as Krauss and Pekkanen detail, sweeping political reforms in 1994 changed voting rules and other key elements of the electoral system. Both the LDP and its adversaries had to adapt to a new system that gave citizens two votes: one for a party and one for a candidate. Under the leadership of the charismatic Koizumi Junichiro, the LDP managed to maintain its majority in the Japanese Diet, but his successors lost popular support as opposing parties learned how to operate in the new electoral environment. Drawing on the insights of historical institutionalism, Krauss and Pekkanen explain how Japanese politics functioned before and after the 1994 reform and why the persistence of party institutions (factions, PARC, koenkai) and the transformed role of party leadership contributed both to the LDP's success at remaining in power for fifteen years after the reforms and to its eventual downfall. In an epilogue, the authors assess the LDP's prospects in the near and medium term. 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties$2bisacsh 607 $aJapan$xPolitics and government$y1945- 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties. 676 $a324.252/04 700 $aKrauss$b Ellis S$0738415 701 $aPekkanen$b Robert$01645168 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814017103321 996 $aThe rise and fall of Japan's LDP$93991478 997 $aUNINA