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Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan
Author Ehrhardt, George ; Klein, Axel ; McLaughlin, Levi ; Reed, Steven R.
Date2014
Pages298
PublisherInstitute of East Asain Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Publisher Url http://ieas.berkeley.edu/
LocationBerkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國]
SeriesJapan Research Monograph
Series No.18
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
Abstract"Anyone interested in contemporary Japanese politics needs to read this book. Certainly, no student of Japanese party politics can afford not to read it. This volume illuminates Komeito's history, organization, electoral mobilization, and behavior in and out of power. More importantly, this book reorients our understanding of the intersection of religion and politics in Japan, a topic that has danced along the periphery of academic studies even as it has grabbed headlines in Japan and beyond. My only question is why scholars had to wait fifty years for such an incisive study of Komeito."
–Robert Pekkanen, University of Washington
Table of contentsPart I. Introduction
1. Kōmeitō: The Most Understudied Party of Japanese Politics — 3
George Ehrhardt, Axel Klein, Levi McLaughlin & Steven R. Reed

Part II. The Context
2. Religious Groups in Japanese Electoral Politics — 25
Axel Klein & Steven R. Reed

Part III. The History
3. Electioneering as Religious Practice: A History of Sōka Gakkai's Political Activities to 1970 — 51
Levi McLaughlin
4. Kōmeitō's Uncertain Decades between Religion and Politics — 83
Yuki Abe & Masahisa Endo

Part IV. The Structure
5. How Kōmeitō Politicians Get Elected — 113
George Ehrhardt
6. Party Ideals and Practical Constraints in Kōmeitō Candidate Nominations — 139
Daniel Markham Smith
7. Sōka Gakkai, Kōmeitō, and Money in Japanese Politics — 163
Matthew Carlson
8. Housewife Voters and Kōmeitō Policies — 187
George Ehrhardt

Part V. The Way to Power
9. Anti-Kōmeitō Counter-Mobilizations — 215
Axel Klein & Steven R. Reed
10. Kōmeitō in Coalition — 240
Linda Hasunuma & Axel Klein

Part VI. Conclusion
11. Kōmeitō: Religion and Politics in Japan — 269
George Ehrhardt, Axel Klein, Levi McLaughlin, Steven R. Reed
List of contributors — 277

Index — 279
ISBN9781557291110
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Created date2014.11.27
Modified date2014.11.27



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