Essays about: "Liberal Democratic Party LDP"

Found 2 essays containing the words Liberal Democratic Party LDP.

1. 1. ESTABLISHING A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IN JAPAN ICHIRO OZAWA AND HIS DREAM OF ‘NORMAL NATION’

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Xianwen Li; [2010]
   Keywords : Liberal Democratic Party LDP ; Japanese politics; Ichiro Ozawa; Japan; politics; two‐party system; Democratic Party of Japan DPJ ; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the 1990s, since the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated Japanese politics for nearly forty years, making Japanese politics more democratic became a hot issue. Many politicians and political organizations in Japan had joined the debate. READ MORE

3. 2. Explaining One-Party Dominance - The Case of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Sebastian Carl Mika Härén; [2010]
   Keywords : One-party Dominance; Japan; LDP; Hegemony; Uncommon Democracies; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : With the puzzle of one-party dominance still looming large, I seek to shed some light on which factors might be considered as explanatory to the long period of hegemony of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Using existing theories on one-party dominance I examine and argue for Japan’s historical and cultural heritage, the pragmatic flexibility of the LDP, the failure of opposition parties, the 1955 electoral system and the Japanese press clubs as possible explanatory factors for one-party dominance in Japan. READ MORE