Electoral Reform and Factional Politics in Italy and Japan

Daniela Giannetti () and Michael F. Thies ()
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Daniela Giannetti: University of Bologna
Michael F. Thies: University of California

Chapter Chapter 5 in A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform, 2011, pp 77-96 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Italy and Japan have often been compared on the basis of the fact that they both had a highly factionalized dominant party that maintained control of national government for long periods of time. While the Italian Christian Democratic Party (DC) was typically the dominant party in multiparty coalitions, in Japan the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was able to form single-party majority governments (Scheiner 2006).

Keywords: Electoral System; Vote Share; Liberal Democratic Party; Electoral Rule; Seat Share (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7228-6_5

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