Waseda Political Studies
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 70
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Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective
Author: Giulia Sandri
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1317083555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrimary elections for choosing party leaders and candidates are now becoming commonplace in Europe, Asia and America but questions as to how much they hinder a party’s organizational strength and cohesion or affect electoral performance have largely been ignored outside of the USA. Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective gives a much-needed conceptualization to this topic, describing the function and nature of primary elections and providing a comparative analytical framework to the impact of primaries on the internal and external functioning of political parties. Elaborating on the analytical tools developed to study the US experience this framework engages with primary elections in Europe and Asia offering a theoretical, comparative and empirical account of the emergence of party primaries and an invaluable guide to internal electoral processes and their impact.
Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia
Author: Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0415667747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comparative survey of recent attempts at secession and separatist movements from across Europe and Asia, and assesses the responses of the respective host governments. With political analysis of recent cases ranging from the Balkans, the USSR, the UK and the Basque Country, to Sri Lanka, Burma, China, Tibet and Taiwan, the authors identify both similarities and differences in the processes and outcomes of secessionist and separatist movements across the two distinct regions.
Generational Gap in Japanese Politics
Author: Willy Jou
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016-07-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781137503404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter decades of stable and seemingly semi-permanent single-party dominance, Japanese politics have gone through fundamental changes since the early 1990s. Government ministries have been reorganised, prime ministerial powers strengthened, and rules for electing the lower house of parliament overhauled. Furthermore, frequent formation, merger, splintering and disappearance of new parties have continued for more than two decades. How do citizens make sense of politics amidst such rapid shifts? The authors address this question by focusing on attitudinal and behavioural changes and continuities with respect to political ideology. They explore what issues citizens associate with ideological terms, where they perceive various parties on a conservative-progressive dimension, and to what extent ideology affects their vote choice. Results of new surveys are also presented to shed light on distinctions between different ideological labels and profiles of radical right supporters. In addition, all topics are discussed with an eye to identifying divergent patterns between older and younger generations.
Japan Decides 2014
Author: Robert J. Pekkanen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 113755200X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollecting original and high-quality analysis by top scholars from Japan, the United States, Australia, and Europe, this volume analyzes the results of the 2014 election, examining each of the major political parties, central policy issues, campaign practices, and considers how the results were used as a mandate for massive policy reform.
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Author: Ted Gerard Jelen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-04-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1316582744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion is resurgent across the globe. In many countries religion is a powerful source of political mobilization, and in some a potent social cleavage. In some religion reinforces the state, in others it provides the space for resistance. This book contains a series of detailed studies examining religion and politics in specific countries or regions. The cases include countries with one dominant religious tradition, and others with two or more competing traditions. They include Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, Shinto and Buddhism. They include states where religion and politics are closely linked, and others with at least a low wall of separation between church and state. The cases are organized by the type of religious marketplace, but allow many other comparisons as well. We develop some generalizations from the cases, and hope that they will be a fertile source of theorizing for others.
Japan's International Democracy Assistance as Soft Power
Author: Maiko Ichihara
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1317351886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan has increasingly emphasized democracy assistance since the mid-2000s, such that it now constitutes a major part of Japan’s foreign policy. This approach is an ostensible departure from the country’s traditional foreign policy stance, which tries to avoid bringing values to the forefront of foreign policies. This book intends to answer the questions of why Japan has started emphasizing democracy assistance and why it has relegated itself to a minor role in democracy assistance nevertheless. It argues that Japan’s emphasis on democracy assistance reveals its intention to increase its political influence with regards to China based on democratic values, and its usage of the term "democracy assistance" is a performative speech act to orchestrate a comprehensive approach for international democracy support. Shedding light on the novel aspect of Japanese policy, this book contributes to the understanding of Japanese foreign policy and democracy promotion. Providing the analysis that state’s speech act could cause to create foreign policies that counter what is predicted by structural realism, this analysis makes contributions to neoclassical realism which explains states’ foreign policy choices within the constraints of international structure.
Japan's Postwar Party Politics
Author: Masaru Kohno
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780691026299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study advances an alternative set of interpretations based on a microanalytic approach that highlights the incentive and bargaining power of individual political actors, and their competitive and strategic behavior under existing institutional constraints. According to Kohno, the evolution of political life in postwar Japan depends on the same factors that are acknowledged to be at work in other industrialized nations. He reveals, through detailed case studies of government formation processes and statistical examinations of candidate nomination patterns, that the microanalytic approach can establish forward-looking and internally consistent interpretations of the postwar development of Japanese party politics
Shaping Global Islamic Discourses
Author: Masooda Bano
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-03-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0748696873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the influence of centres of Islamic learning using 3 case studies: Al-Azhar University in Egypt, International Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, and Al-Mustafa University in Iran
Justice and Reciprocity in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
Author: Kazutaka Inamura
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-17
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1107110947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Aristotle's approaches to how to develop a political community based on the notions of justice and friendship.
