Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Glossary of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments and a Note on the Use of the Online Appendix
- Introduction: The Puzzle of Party Competition Failure in Japan
- 1 The Importance of Party Competition and a Model of Party Competition Failure
- 2 Opposition Failure in Japan: Background and Explanations
- 3 Clientelism and Its Determinants
- 4 The Impact of Clientelism and Centralized Government Financial Structure: Comparative Analysis
- 5 Local Opposition Failure in Japan
- 6 National-Level Opposition Failure: The Impact of Subnational-Level Weakness
- 7 Political Economy Changes and Their Impact on Party Systems: Comparative Analysis
- 8 Parallel Party Systems: Political Economy Changes and the Limits to Anti-Clientelist Appeals in Japan
- 9 The Problem of Organization and Coherence in Top-Down Party Formation
- 10 Conclusion: Democracy Without Competition
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Glossary of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments and a Note on the Use of the Online Appendix
- Introduction: The Puzzle of Party Competition Failure in Japan
- 1 The Importance of Party Competition and a Model of Party Competition Failure
- 2 Opposition Failure in Japan: Background and Explanations
- 3 Clientelism and Its Determinants
- 4 The Impact of Clientelism and Centralized Government Financial Structure: Comparative Analysis
- 5 Local Opposition Failure in Japan
- 6 National-Level Opposition Failure: The Impact of Subnational-Level Weakness
- 7 Political Economy Changes and Their Impact on Party Systems: Comparative Analysis
- 8 Parallel Party Systems: Political Economy Changes and the Limits to Anti-Clientelist Appeals in Japan
- 9 The Problem of Organization and Coherence in Top-Down Party Formation
- 10 Conclusion: Democracy Without Competition
- References
- Index
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- Democracy without Competition in JapanOpposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State, pp. 247 - 267Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005