In August 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a crushing victory over the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), thus bringing to an end over fifty years of

The authors of this book have joined together for a third time to produce a book on Japanese political parties and elections. The first two books under the titl

Explains how the persistence of party institutions (factions, PARC, koenkai) and the transformed role of party leadership in Japan contributed both to the LDP's

When the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in September 2009, Japanese citizens expected the imminent arrival of a new political era, characterized

An examination of the ways in which the introduction of mixed-member electoral systems affects the configuration of political parties