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Comparative Political Studies on Party Factions

Research Project

Project/Area Number 62301069
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Politics
Research InstitutionKonan University

Principal Investigator

KAWATA Jun-ichi  Konan University, Faculty of Law, 法学部, 教授 (00104729)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MURAKAMI Shinichiro  Chubu University, Department of International Relations, 国際関係学部, 助教授 (10305675)
YOSHIMORI Yoshikazu  Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute of Foreign Studies, 外国学研究所, 助教授 (80105379)
MIZUKOSHI Tsuyao  Osaka College of Music, 音楽学部, 教授 (40089488)
TOKURA Kanji  Kansai University, Faculty of Law, 法学部, 教授 (00067703)
NISHIKAWA Tomokazu  Himeji Dokkyo University, Faculty of Law, 法学部, 教授 (00030601)
Project Period (FY) 1987 – 1988
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1988)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
KeywordsPredominant party system / Clientelism / Liberal Democratic Party / Japan Socialist Party / Political party / Intra-party democracy / Patronage / 派閥 / 政治腐敗
Research Abstract

While party faction has been regarded as an important factor to refer to Japanese politics, its nature,structure or political function has not been fully and systematically studied. Parts of the reason to this situation can be actually be found in the fact that not only party factions but factions themselves have been considered to be by-products of premodern social structure and the fact that faction politics has been seen as pathological phenomenon of the party system from the perspective that competitive two-party system is natural and proper in most Western conceptions of democracy. As knowledge on party politics in non-Western countries has been increasing and some alternative models to angro-american democracy have been developed, obstructing factors for studying all party factions become attenuated.
Under such a better disciplinary condition, out co-operative research seeked to draw an inventory of propositions on factionalism or party factions by inquiring into important case st … More udies of some countries, to apply critical theoretical fruits drwan from neighboring disciplines like sociology or cultural anthropology to political party factions and to build middle-range theories on the structure and function of factions. More concretely speaking, this research aimed to study party faction comparatively not as an dependent variable but as an important independent variable in the political processes.
As we regarded historical factors and socio structural factors as important in the formation of political factions to ask fheir structures and functions, we tried to collect empirical data as much as possible, to compare them each other and to make important concepts of factions oprational on the basis of data. On the other hand, we seeked to inquire into the pattern of party faction's structure and function by focusing on its relation to predominant party system and clientelism. Finally we picked up japanese party system and political process as analytical sites to which we should apply our findings from foregoing studies. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1988 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1987 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All Other

All Publications (14 results)

  • [Publications] 村上信一郎: 中部大学国際関係学部紀要. 3号. 27-41 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 西川知一: 姫路法学. 1号. 1-50 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 村上信一郎: 中部大学国際地域研究所国際研究. 5号. 25-97 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 水灑征矢雄: 大阪音楽大学研究紀要. 27号. 116-126 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 福永文夫: 姫路法学. 3号. (1989)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Murakami, Shinichiro.: "The Comparative Study of Political Factions:Some Preliminary Observations" Chubu University International Relations Review. No.3. 27-41 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Nishikawa, Tomokazu.: "The Origins of the Christian Democratic Parties in Europe" Himeji Law Review. No.1. 1-50 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Murakami, Shimichiro.: "Dilemmas of the Conervative Party-Italian Politics and Christian Democratic Party in the Eighties" Chubu University International Studies. No.5. 25-97 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Mizukoshi, Tsuyao.: "contemporary Italian Democracy-An Introduction" Osaka College of Music Review. No.27. 116-126 (1988)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Fukunaga, Fumio.: "Factionalism in the Japan Socialist Party" Himeji Law Review. No.3. (1989)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 村上信一郎: 中部大学国際地域研究所国際研究. 5. 25-97 (1988)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 水漉征矢雄: 大阪音楽大学研究紀要. 27. 116-126 (1988)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 福永文夫: 姫路法学. 3. (1989)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 西川知一: 姫路法学. 1. (1988)

    • Related Report
      1987 Annual Research Report

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