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7Inequality and the 2017 election: decreasing dominance of Abenomics and regional revitalizationIn David Chiavacci, Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner & Daniel M. Smith (eds.), Chiavacci, David (2018). Inequality and the 2017 election: decreasing dominance of Abenomics and regional revitalization. In: Pekkanen, Robert J.; Reed, Steven R.; Scheiner, Ethan; Smith, Daniel M.. Japan Decides 2017. New York, 219-242, . pp. 219-242. 2018.Social and regional inequality remained of secondary importance in the 2017 House of Representatives election, especially in comparison to national security and constitutional reform. Still, the election victory of the coalition between the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Kōmeitō was also due to its ability to shape the debate concerning Japan’s political-economic model of growth and inequality. Abenomics and regional revitalization were the dominating policies, which opposition parties criti…Read more
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21What Mechanism Causes the M + 1 Rule? A Simple SimulationJapanese Journal of Political Science 4 (1): 41-60. 2003.The M + 1 Rule, that at equilibrium there should be only one more candidate running than seats available, extended Duverger's Law to the cases of more than one seat per district. Both the M + 1 rule and Duverger's Law have been confirmed repeatedly, albeit always with qualification. Yet we have reached no consensus on the mechanism that produces these two empirical regularities. In this paper I use a simple simulation to test the hypothesis that the mechanism is that candidates retire after some…Read more
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20The Two-Party System Meets a House of Councillors ElectionJapanese Journal of Political Science 5 (2): 323-325. 2004.
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35Time for a Change? Recent Elections in JapanJapanese Journal of Political Science 2 (2): 243-245. 2001.The most important election held in 2001 was that to the House of Councillors. Here, however, I will report on several surprising gubernatorial elections and the shocking LDP party presidential election. Each of these elections sent a similar message from the voters: . Powerful political machines using tried and true campaign techniques were repeatedly defeated by novices whose primary attraction was that they were not part of the political establishment
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33The 2000 General ElectionJapanese Journal of Political Science 1 (2): 337-339. 2000.The results of the 2000 general election can be interpreted in two contradictory ways. On the one hand, the coalition won a comfortable majority with 271 seats to the combined opposition total of 188. On the other hand, the coalition lost 64 seats while the opposition parties gained 35. Though either side could thus claim victory, it was clear from the expressions on the faces of the party leaders that the coalition had lost the election and the opposition had won. This result means, first, that…Read more
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26Japanese Elections in 2003: The LDP Strikes Back?Japanese Journal of Political Science 4 (2): 353-355. 2003.
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32Evaluating Political Reform in Japan: A Midterm ReportJapanese Journal of Political Science 3 (2): 243-263. 2002.In the 1993 general election the Liberal Democratic Party lost power for the first time since it was founded in 1955. The coalition government that followed enacted the most far-reaching political reforms Japan has experienced since the American Occupation. The country has now experienced two elections since these reforms so we can begin to analyze trends and dynamics. It is now possible to make a preliminary evaluation of the effects of these reforms. I evaluate the reforms under three headings…Read more
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36Elections: Still Demanding a Change: Elections in Japan in 2002Japanese Journal of Political Science 3 (2): 281-283. 2002.One year ago I entitled my review of Japanese elections . Candidates running against the establishment were defeating candidates who had until recently appeared unbeatable. Most notably, outsider candidates were defeating ainori (supported by all major parties) candidates in gubernatorial elections. A prime example of an outsider candidate defeating the establishment was Prime Minister Koizumi, who defeated the LDP establishment to win the leadership of the LDP. Koizumi's election and subsequent…Read more
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31Analyzing Secularization and Religiosity in AsiaJapanese Journal of Political Science 8 (3): 327-339. 2007.Using the 2005 and 2006 AsiaBarometer surveys I analyze religiosity and secularization in Asia. I find that, in South Asia, identification with a particular religion is the norm and most people pray every day but, in East Asia, religious identification and religious practice are both much less common. Even in secular East Asia, however, the demand for religious services is high and belief in a spiritual world is common. I conclude that secularization does not necessarily produce uniformly secula…Read more
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22The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche: A Comprehensive Facsimile Edition of the Texts from the Judean Desert, Vol. 1 [The Microfiches]The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche: A Comprehensive Facsimile Edition of the Texts from the Judean Desert, Vol. 2: Companion VolumeThe Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche: A Comprehensive Facsimile Edition of the Texts from the Judean Desert, Vol. 3: Inventory List of PhotographsThe Dead Sea Scrolls Catalogue: Documents, Photographs, and Museum Inventory Numbers (review)Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (3): 549. 1996.
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36Voter Reactions to 'Strange Bedfellows': The Japanese Voter Faces a Kaleidoscope of Changing CoalitionsJapanese Journal of Political Science 1 (2): 229-248. 2000.On 30 June 1994 the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ, formerly the Japan Socialist Party) joined its historic enemy, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), to form a coalition government in a Japanese equivalent of Italy's . Competition between the conservative LDP and the progressive socialists had defined the Japanese party system since 1955. In this paper we analyze voter reactions to this and other confusing events surrounding the end of the LDP's 38-year dominance. We find, first, that t…Read more
University of Connecticut
PhD, 1999
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