2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Theoretical and empirical research on influence of opposition parties in postwar Japan policy formulation process.
| Project/Area Number |
22730112
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 日本政治 / 内閣 / 野党 / 二大政党制 / 選挙制度改革 / ねじれ国会 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research has analyzed how oppositions projected influence over policies formulated by cabinet and has found that cabinets often took in policies advocated by oppositions to formulate some major policies after 1990s. There are two reasons that drove cabinets to adopt policies advocated by opposition parties. One is that the electoral reform of 1994 developed a two major party system in Japan and competition between two major parties increased. Second is that often the Diet became “twisted” and thus cabinet had to cooperate with opposition parties to deal with policy challenges.
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