SHIFTING ALIGNMENTS IN JAPANESE PARTY POLITICS: THE APRIL 1974 ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR OF KYOTO PREFECTURE
In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Volume 14, Issue 10, p. 887-899
ISSN: 0004-4687
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In: Asian survey: a bimonthly review of contemporary Asian affairs, Volume 14, Issue 10, p. 887-899
ISSN: 0004-4687
In: Studies in comparative communism: an international interdisciplinary journal, Volume 6, Issue 4, p. 429-436
ISSN: 0039-3592
REVIEWS COMMUNISM IN JAPAN: A CASE OF POLITICAL NATURALISATION, BY PAUL F. LANGER. FINDS FAULT WITH SOME OF LANGER'S METHODOLOGY. BUT FEELD BOOK IS USEFUL. CRITICISES LANGER'S FOCUS ON THE JAPANESE COMMUNIST PARTY (WHICH LANGER FEELS CAN NEBVER ATTAIN NATIONAL POWER) WHILE IGNORING THE BROADER JAPANESE MARXIST TRADITION; AND THE INFLUENCE THIS HAS HAD ON THE COMMUNIST PARTY.
In: Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan
In: Asia-Pacific review, Volume 5, Issue 2, p. 165-180
ISSN: 1469-2937
In: Australian outlook: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Volume 35, Issue 1, p. 19-32
In: Studies in comparative communism, Volume 6, Issue 4, p. 429-436
ISSN: 0039-3592
In: Japan in Decline, p. 18-34
In: Australian outlook: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Volume 23, Issue 3, p. 299-302
In: Australian outlook: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 176-189
In: Pacific affairs, Volume 73, Issue 2, p. 291
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: American political science review, Volume 94, Issue 4, p. 969
ISSN: 0003-0554
A cartoon in the Asahi Shinbun dated 11 August 1993 shows the leaders of the seven political parties participating in the Hosokawa coalition government formed two days before. They are wielding samurai swords and standing triumphant on the inert body of a dinosaur labeled 'single party control'. One of the leaders is holding a banner that reads: 'Next is political reform', and the caption to the cartoon expresses the following sentiment: 'By launching [the new Cabinet], "One Great Task" has been completed' ( Asahi Shinbun, 11 August 1993). At the time it was easy to regard the formation of the first non-Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Cabinet for nearly 38 years as a heroic event. A party mired in corruption, preferring backstage deals to open government and massively influenced by irresponsible bureaucrats and self-serving interest groups had been vanquished by a coalition of far-sighted reformers. These reformers were proposing a coherent programme to democratise and modernise the political, economic and social systems and practices of Japan. As happens following most revolutions, however, what ensued was far more messy and confusing, the politics more murky and the achievements more ambiguous than the initial mood of euphoria would have predicted. Indeed, within a mere nine months of losing office, the LDP dinosaur had revived, and though much less powerful than before, was taking its first steps on the road to regaining its dominant political position. The Hosokawa Cabinet adumbrated a reform agenda whose principal elements were deregulation, decentralisation, economic reforms and a radical change to the electoral system for the House of Representatives. In the event, partly because the tenure of office of his government was so brief, Hosokawa's only solid achievement in the area of political reform was a wholesale rewriting of the electoral law for the Lower House. Although, however, this was arguably the one really major political change that took place in the 1990s, to gauge its effects is far more problematic. Indeed, it is a central argument of this paper that the effects of changing the Lower House electoral system have been quite limited, and that the causes of the most crucial political changes of the 1990s must be sought largely elsewhere. (It is possible, of Pacific Economic Papers course, that the new electoral system may produce more substantial effects in the future, but in any case we cannot assume that the new system will not be further revised in the next few years.)
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In: Australian outlook: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 107-114
In: Australian outlook: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 230-244
In: The Asian journal of public administration, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 102-123