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- Title
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE LDP IN JAPAN: WHAT HAPPENED?
- Authors
Baldvinsson, Hrannar
- Abstract
This article explores the reason why the LDP has stayed so long in power and why it ultimately fell out. It begins by giving an overview of the political situation in Japan in the past decades. It then proceeds to explain the main theories on why the LDP stayed so long in power and maintains that the main contributing factor has been a weak opposition. Finally it discusses how the new party has distinguished itself from former opposition parties and how and why the LDP had failed to meet that challenge.
- Publication
Politikon, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 2, p49
- ISSN
1583-3984
- Publication type
Academic Journal