Electoral Reform and the Costs of Personal Support in Japan. Electoral Reform and the Costs of Personal Support in Japan.

Electoral Reform and the Costs of Personal Support in Japan‪.‬

Journal of East Asian Studies 2006, May-August, 6, 2

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How does the choice of electoral rules affect politicians' incentives to campaign on the basis of personalized support? This article examines to what extent the adoption of new electoral and campaign finance rules affects the incentive of politicians in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party to rely on personal support organizations called koenkai. The core of the analysis utilizes newly collected campaign finance data. The empirical analyses confirm a considerable weakening in the number of koenkai across systems as well as a decreased need for politicians to spend money in the proportional representation tier. These results highlight the importance of previous organizational legacies as well as the efforts of political actors to mitigate the effects of rule change on their election and reelection prospects. KEYWORDS: Japan, LDP, campaign finance, electoral reform, campaigns, personal vote, incumbency, rational choice, institutionalism, mixed-member electoral systems

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2006
May 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
42
Pages
PUBLISHER
Lynne Rienner Publishers
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
238.4
KB

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