The Japanese Voter
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The Japanese Voter

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This landmark work surveys the major factors that influence voting behavior in Japan. It is the first comprehensive study of the Japanese voter to be written for English-speaking audiences.

It is commonly believed that Japanese voting behavior cannot be compared to voting behavior in the West because it is not determined by the same kinds of group loyalties, interests, and attitudes but rather by unique patterns of personalistic networks and group mobilization. However, this book demonstrates through a wide range of examples that there are recognizable bases of comparison between Japanese and Western voting behavior. It also produces a number of fascinating contrasts with voting in the West, because Japan is different, even if it is not unique. Thus we learn about the relative absence of economic voting, the weak role of the media, the continuing importance of cultural values, the enormous stability in voting patterns, and the effects of the unusual Japanese electoral system. Drawing on data from the 1950s onward, the book includes coverage of the most recent national elections in Japan.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
9780300160482
Edition
1
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Political Campaigns & Elections
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Tables
  3. Figures
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Part I: Introduction
  8. 1. Japanese Voting Behavior in Comparative Perspective
  9. Part II: Long-term Influences on Voting Behavior
  10. 2. Social Structure and Voting Behavior
  11. 3. Value Cleavages, Contextual Influences, and the Vote
  12. 4. Mechanisms of Social Network Influence in Japanese Voting Behavior
  13. 5. Agents of Partisan Socialization in Japan
  14. 6. Types of Partisanship, Partisan Attitudes, and Voting Choices
  15. Part III: Short-term Influences on Voting Behavior
  16. 7. Issues and Voting Behavior
  17. 8. Media Influences and Voting Behavior
  18. 9. Social Networks, Influence Communications, and the Vote
  19. Part IV: Conclusions
  20. 10. The Japanese Voter: Comparing the Explanatory Variables in Electoral Decisions
  21. 11. The Changing Japanese Voter and the 1989 and 1990 Elections
  22. References
  23. Index