Prime ministerial popularity and the changing electoral fortunes of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party

Dennis Patterson; Ko Maeda

doi:10.1525/as.2007.47.3.415

Prime ministerial popularity and the changing electoral fortunes of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party

Dennis Patterson, Ko Maeda

Political Science

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This article explores the impact of prime ministerial popularity on the changing electoral fortunes of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). We show that the popularity of the Japanese prime minister exerted a modest but definite impact on aggregate vote shares captured by the LDP throughout the postwar period.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	415-433
Number of pages	19
Journal	Asian Survey
Volume	47
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2007.47.3.415
State	Published - May 2007

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Elections
Japan
Liberal Democratic Cabinet approval
Prime ministerial popularity

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