Introduction Electoral Rules and Party Strategy Demographics and Policy Party Factions Party Organization Political Structure and Bureaucratic Incentives Bureaucratic Manipulation Political Structure and Judicial Incentives Judicial Manipulation Conclusion: Political Markets and Electoral Change Notes Reference Index
J. Mark Ramseyer is Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard University Law School. Frances McCall Rosenbluth is Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Ramseyer and Rosenbluth present a view of Japanese politics that
coherently links voters, politicians, bureaucrats, and judges into
patterns of interaction governed by the logic of the ‘political
marketplace.’ They succeed in demonstrating that many of the
analytical tools developed to study the politics of advanced
Western democracies are not only applicable in the Japanese
context, but also are capable of yielding novel interpretations of
politics in Japan.
*Pacific Affairs*
[A] well researched and carefully thought out study of Japanese
politics.
*Asian Affairs*
Fodder for scholarly research for years to come.
*American Journal of Sociology*
Japan’s Political Marketplace is irritating in the best sense. It
challenges much of what we think we know about Japanese politics
with elegant theory, artful arrays of facts, and sharp
argument.
*John Campbell, University of Michigan*
As Reggie Jackson said about himself when he was traded to the
Yankees, this book may become the ‘stick that stirs the drink’ of
Japanese political science. Many readers will love it, many will
hate it, both for good reasons. But no one will be able to ignore
it.
*Frank K. Upham, Boston College Law School*
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