Download or read book Japan's Postwar Party Politics written by Masaru Kohno and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.