Japanese democracy and lessons for the United States: eight counterintuitive lessons

"This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics, using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how elections operate in a non-Western democracy. Featuring extensive data and evidence from both Japan and the United States, the themes covered includ...

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Main Author: Christensen, Ray 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2020
Series:Politics in Asia
Politics in Asia series
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics, using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how elections operate in a non-Western democracy. Featuring extensive data and evidence from both Japan and the United States, the themes covered include one party rule, ballot security and voting procedures, election regulations, malapportionment and gerrymandering, court interventions, party loyalty and distortions of the public will by election rules. In so doing, the analysis challenges conventional wisdom in both Japan and the United States, highlighting surprising and counterintuitive findings from decades of observation. This book also explicitly compares Japan to other, similarly situated democracies. Japan is therefore not treated as a standalone case but, rather, the lessons from Japan are contextualized for greater understanding and can be used to inform discussions about comparative elections and democracy. Offering practical advice in relation to elections and the functions of democracy, Japanese Democracy and Lessons for the United States will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese, US and comparative politics"--
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (205 pages)
ISBN:9781000036763
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