Democracy in Japan : The Logic of One-Party Dominance - Masaki Taniguchi
Masaki Taniguchi
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- Pages · 202 pages, 34 Tables, black and white; 34 Figures
- Publication Date · 02/09/2026
- Genre · Political parties
Analyzes Japanese democracy utilizing a comprehensive survey of politicians and voters. Democracy in Japan is based on the monumental UTokyo-Asahi Survey, a survey of Japanese voters and political leaders conducted over two decades. It succeeds in estimating the preferences of individual politicians-including prime ministers and other top leaders-in the most straightforward and reliable way and comparing them with voters on the same scale. As a result, Masaki Taniguchi shows, the survey empirically reveals that the Liberal Democratic Party has been able to maintain one-party dominance despite its unprecedented shift to the right since 2012-not because voters' preferences have become more conservative but because it has maintained its valence in economic policy, which is not related to the left-right axis in Japan.
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