Abstract
Japanese party politics shows a pattern of instability and fluidity particularly after mid-2000s. It is undoubtedly unstable: there have been changes of the ruling party and cabinet shuffles are frequent.
Financial support from The Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation and University of Niigata Prefecture is gratefully acknowledged.
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Park Cheol Hee “Democratic Party of Japan’s Shifting Policy Ideas and Unstable Party Competition,” Kukje Jiyok Yonku (Journal of International and Area Studies) 20:1 (Spring 2011): 31–59.
For more on the transformation of the party system in Japan, see Gerald Curtis, The Japanese Way of Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).
As for the process of party system change between 1993 and 2011, refer to Park Cheol Hee, Jamindnag Jongkwon gwa Jonhu Cheje eui Byonyong (LDP Politics and the Transformation of the Postwar Regime) (Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2011).
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Park, C.H. (2015). Return to the Liberal Democratic Party Dominance?. In: Inoguchi, T. (eds) Japanese and Korean Politics. Asia Today. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137488312_4
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