Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan

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Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan is written by Robert Pekkanen and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004357394 (ISBN 10) and 9789004357396 (ISBN 13).

This work collects decades of the best published scholarship in English on the unequivocally most successful political party in Japanese history: the Liberal Democratic Party (the LDP). Governing Japan for almost the entirety of the post-war period, the LDP also has a claim to be the most successful political party in any post-war democracy. Seminal articles in this collection explore the key aspects of the LDP: the party's evolution since its founding in 1955; key facets of the LDP's internal organization including factions and koenkai; the LDP in policy-making, including its relationship with the bureaucracy and interest groups, as well as its policy-making committee apparatus; and, party leadership, including the premierships of Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe.