Abstract
Since its establishment in 1955 and until August 1993, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was the ruling party in the Japanese government.2 However, there is a consensus among researchers that the LDP was not a single party in this period, but a coalition of different factions.3 Indeed each faction in the LDP has its own office, its own account system, and its own councillors, as if it were a party. Ishikawa (1978, 1984) has suggested that work on Japanese politics be analyzed from the viewpoint of the LDP as a governing coalition consisting of different factions. The size of many of the LDP factions (see Tables 1, 2, and 3) was in fact about the same as the size of many of the opposition parties, supporting the conceptual framework Ishikawa prescribes.
This chapter is based on work supported by NSF Grants SES-88-208405 and SBR 9422548. The authors thank Gregory Densen for research assistance.
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Wada, J., Schofield, N. (1996). Bargaining in the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. In: Schofield, N. (eds) Collective Decision-Making: Social Choice and Political Economy. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8767-9_10
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