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This work collects decades of the best published scholarship in English on the unequivocally most successful political party in Japanese history: the Liberal Democratic Party (the LDP). Governing Japan for almost the entirety of the post-war period, the LDP also has a claim to be the most successful political party in any post-war democracy. Seminal articles in this collection explore the key aspects of the LDP: the party’s evolution since its founding in 1955; key facets of the LDP’s internal organization including factions and koenkai; the LDP in policy-making, including its relationship with the bureaucracy and interest groups, as well as its policy-making committee apparatus; and, party leadership, including the premierships of Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe.
Price: $1,184.00
Pages: 1684
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Critical Readings
Publication Date:
27 September 2018
ISBN: 9789004357396
Format: Other
Robert J. Pekkanen (Ph.D. 2002, Harvard) is Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA). Pekkanen has published widely on the LDP, including in the American Political Science Review and coauthored The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP (2011), and coedited The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems (2018) and Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election (2018).