Electoral Adaptation in Japan : Party Strategy after Electoral Rule Change(<Featured Theme> On structural developments, Koizumi reforms, and the collapse of LDP rule)

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Japan adopted new, largely majoritarian, electoral rules in 1994 that have begun to reshape the political landscape in dramatic ways. The old mraLurban divide between the parties that seemed to characterize Japanese politicsinfact masked a strategy of relying on groupsin Society that could be easily mobilized and monitored for purposes of allocating the vote among multiple candidates in most districts. Under the new rules, programmatic appeals are a more efficient way to gaina plurality of voters, leaving the old mobilizationalstrategyindisarray and consequently put and end to the LDP's long-term dominance. We speculatethat clientelistic transactions between voters and politicians continue to decline because, given the system's majoritarian electoralincentives, rebundling ruralprotectionism with the socialinsurance concerns of the urbanpoor will be more ideologically consistent and therefore electoral1y more efficient.
2011-02-28