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Neo-Institutionalist Research on the Partisan Competition and the Diet Management Practice in the System of 1955

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09620059
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Politics
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

KAWATO Sadafumi  Tohoku University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (10133688)

Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1998
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1998)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
KeywordsDiet / House of Representatives / Legislative Politics / Party Politics / Seniority / Diet Management / Neo-Institutionalism
Research Abstract

1. During the period under grant, I reviewed the domestic and foreign literature on Japan's electoral systems and gave a paper at the Comparative Legislative Research Conference, the University of Iowa April 16-18, 1998. One approach is concerned with the difference in the district magnitude employed by various Japanese systems as well as other accompanying features. Researchers of medium-sized district system (MDS) tend to treat the party as the dependent variable and focuses on how MDS has affected candidates and parties. Another approach treats Japan's MDS as a single non-transferable vote system (SNTV), and contrasts SNTV with other popular electoral systems such as majoritarian and PR systems. Building upon the rational choice approach, researchers regard SNTV as a rule of the game, which imposes constraints on self-interested political actors. Incentives and strategies of actors are analyzed and outcomes are explained as an equilibrium. Researchers tend to evaluate parties' abili … More ty highly and claim that parties are successful in coping with the problems.
2. I also wrote a paper in English on the interfactional balancing and seniority rule for the appointment for important positions in the government and the Liberal Democratic Party, and presented it at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting September 3-6, 1998.
3. In order to analyze how the legislative process evolved during the system of 1955, I focused on the change in the number of the introduction and passage of private member bills. I collected various information on all private member bills during the and the 31st Diet sessions in a machine readable form. The finding of the data analysis is that the decline in the late 1950s in the number of private member bills introduced by the governing LDP members was closely related to the evolution of the bill introduction process in which government bills requiring budgetary action had been presented to the relevant section of the LDP's Policy Affairs Research Council before introduction. I talked about this work at a few private research meetings. I am preparing to write a paper on it. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1998 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All Other

All Publications (9 results)

  • [Publications] 川人貞史: "日本政治学の課題と展望" レヴァイアサン. 133-165 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KAWATO, SADAFUMI: "Review of Party System Change" Journal of Politics. 60・3. 891-893 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 川人貞史: "政治改革をめぐって" レヴァイアサン. 23. 170-177 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sadafumi Kawato, Junko Kato, and Ikuo Kume: "Symposium : Japanese Political Studies in Perspective." Leviathan Special Issue. 133-65 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sadafumi Kawato: "Review of Party System Change : Approaches and Interpretations by Peter Mair." Journal of Politics. 60 No.3. 891-893 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sadafumi Kawato: "On Political Reform." Leviathan. 23. 170-177 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1998 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 川人貞史: "日本政治学の課題と展望" レヴァイアサン. 133-165 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] KAWATO,SADAFUMI: "Review of Party System Change" Journal of Politics. 60・3. 891-893 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 川人貞史: "政治改革をめぐって" レヴァイアサン. 23. 170-177 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1997-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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