
Japan's Postwar Party Politics
In this sophisticated theoretical work, Masaru Kohno presents a systematic reexamination of the evolution of party politics in Japan since the end of the second World War. Because of the long one-party dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan''s parliamentary democracy has often been viewed as unique in the developed world, and most of the existing studies of Japanese party politics have a...
In this sophisticated theoretical work, Masaru Kohno presents a systematic reexamination of the evolution of party politics in Japan since the end of the second World War. Because of the long one-party dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan''s parliamentary democracy has often been viewed as unique in the developed world, and most of the existing studies of Japanese party politics have a...