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Python beyond Python -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: The Whole of the Parts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I Solo Work(s) -- How Eric Idle Found His Grail: The Journey of Monty Python's Spamalot from Film to Broadway -- A Horse, a Spoon, and a Bucket -- Camelot: A Very Silly Place -- Idle Finds His Grail -- Notes -- Bibliography -- From Silly to Scholarly: The Complete and Utter History of Terry Jones -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Python, Heritage, and Michael Palin's Diaries -- Recent Histories of "Heritage" -- Palin and the Politics of the Everyday -- Palin as Critic of Celebrity -- Public Patron -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Getting There: Michael Palin's Travels -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Grotesque Unrealism: Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky -- Notes -- Bibliography -- From Witness Box to the Bench: Meetings, Bloody Meetings, Video Arts, and the Evolution of John Cleese -- Monetizing Humor: Video Arts -- Cleese in Need of Instruction: 1976 -- Cleese Is Still Learning: 1993 -- Cleese as the Authority: 2012 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Pre- and Post-Python Collaborations -- Joining the Circus: The Pythons before Monty Python -- The Frost Report and That Was the Week That Was -- At Last the 1948 Show -- Do Not Adjust Your Set -- The Complete and Utter History of Britain -- Conclusion: Off to Join the Circus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Playing with the Past: The Complete and Utter History of Britain in the Context of Sixties Television -- From History to Television -- BBC and ITV -- The Complete and Utter History of Britain and the Field of Historical Television -- Genres and Styles A-Go-Go -- Towards Python -- Beyond Python -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Thrilling Adventures in Post-Colonial Culture: From Empire to Commonwealth in Ripping Yarns and British Popular Culture -- Notes -- Bibliography

Pt. I: The political context of the 1996 and 2000 elections. Reed, Steven R.: The 1993 election and the end of LDP one-party dominance. Reed, Steven R.: Realignment between the 1993 and 1996 elections. Reed, Steven R.: Realignment between the 1996 and 2000 elections. Pt. II: Four prefectural case studies. Scheiner, Ethan: Political realignment in Nagano. Hata Tsutomu and the new opposition challenge the LDP. Cox, Karen E.: A local five-party alliance challenges the LDP in Hyogo. Sveinsdottir, Hulda Thora: Inheriting the "Conservative Kingdom" in Ibaraki. Weiner, Robert: Kagoshima: the prefecture that realignment forgot. Pt. III: Statistical analysis. Reed, Steven R.: Who won the 1996 election? Reed, Steven R.: Who won the 2000 election? Reed, Steven R.: Conclusions

Widespread dissatisfaction in Japan in the 1990s set the stage for numerous political reforms aimed at enhancing representation and accountability. But have these reforms in fact improved the quality of Japanese democracy? Through the lens of this question, the authors explore contemporary Japanese politics at the national, local, and grassroots levels. Their systematic analysis of when and how citizens attempt to create and use new opportunities to articulate political interests offers insights not only on the current state of Japanese democracy, but also on the dynamics of political behavior over all