Patrick Köllner () (GIGA Institute of Asian Affairs)
Abstract
Japan’s ruling party is a prime example of a dominant party. While dominant parties in other democracies around the world have lost their grip on power or have even disappeared altogether, the LDP is still going strong. What explains the success of the party? How did the LDP acquire its dominant position and how did it manage to cling to it? In an attempt to answer these questions, this paper discusses the rise, the power (re-)sources and the perspectives of Japan’s dominant party.
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Paper provided by GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in its series GIGA Working Paper Series with number
08.