14005
Proseminar
SoSe 21: AM: The dynamics of party politics in contemporary Japan
Elena Korshenko
Kommentar
Parties are the key link between the citizens and decision-makers in representative democracies. They aggregate citizens’ interests, compete in the elections for the right to represent them and transform their preferences into laws once elected. Japan is one of the oldest democracies in Asia. And yet, having been ruled by a single party—the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)—through most of the post-war period, it was seen as an “uncommon democracy” (Pempel 1990) or “democracy without competition” (Scheiner 2006). This course will explore this phenomenon and the extent to which it is still relevant against the backdrop of the socio-political changes that have occurred in Japan since the 1990s. Firstly, the seminar will map out the Japanese party system and discuss the most prominent actors within it. It will further introduce relevant concepts and theories of comparative political science to examine how Japanese parties compete in the elections, their distinctive organisational characteristics and behaviour in the legislature and government. Finally, it will evaluate the scope of changes within these major domains of parties’ activities and identify the challenges to the LDP-led political status quo. Schließen
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