Malfunctioning democracy in Japan:quantitative analysis in a civil society/ Yoshiaki Kobayashi.
Physical description:
xiii, 207 p. ill. 23 cm.;
Bibliographic notes:
Includes bibliographical references.;
Author(s): KOBAYASHI, Yoshiaki;
ISBN:
9780739147573 (pbk.;
Subjects: Democracy --Japan.;
Elections --Japan.;
Japan --Politics and government --1945;
Formatted contents notes:
Party platforms and government expenditures -- Platforms and voting behavior -- Electoral platform malfunction -- Investigating the political rationality hypothesis -- The voters' response : macro-analysis -- The voters' response : micro-analysis -- Issue voting -- Retrospective voting -- Issue voting and retrospective voting in the 2005 and 2009 elections -- A plan for the resuscitation of democracy -- Appendix : politicians' career points.;
Publisher:
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , c2012.;
Call number: 320.952 KOB;
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