Election Campaigning Japanese Style

Election Campaigning Japanese Style

by Gerald Curtis
ISBN-10:
0231147457
ISBN-13:
9780231147453
Pub. Date:
01/21/2009
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10:
0231147457
ISBN-13:
9780231147453
Pub. Date:
01/21/2009
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Election Campaigning Japanese Style

Election Campaigning Japanese Style

by Gerald Curtis

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Overview

Running for public office in postwar Japan requires the endorsement of a political party and a sophisticated system of organizational support. In this volume, Gerald L. Curtis provides a detailed case study of the campaign of Sato Bunsei, who in 1967 ran for the Lower House of Japan's parliament as a nonincumbent candidate of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Sato's district consisted of a modern urban center and a tradition-bound rural hinterland and featured a dynamic dialectic between old and new patterns of electioneering, which led Sato to innovate new strategies and techniques.

Since its publication in 1971, sociologists and anthropologists as well as political scientists have considered Curtis's microanalysis of Japan's political system to be a vital historical document, offering insights into Japanese social behavior and political organization that are still relevant. The Japanese edition of Curtis's pioneering study, Daigishi No Tanjo, a best-seller, is valued today as a classic and read and cited by journalists, politicians, and scholars alike. This edition features a new introduction in which the author reflects on the reception of his book and on the changes in Japan's election process since its publication.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231147453
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 01/21/2009
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 275
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Gerald L. Curtis is Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and the former director of the East Asian Institute. He is the author of The Japanese Way of Politics and The Logic of Japanese Politics.
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