Party in Power: The Japanese Liberal-Democrats and Policy-making

by Haruhiro Fukui

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

318 pages, Hardcover

Published May 28, 2021

Reviews

[Yalin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fukui's work is an informative historical analysis of policymaking in Japan in the early decades of its existence. Fukui charts the organizational and political factors which makes and sustains the LDP in an open and accessible way. The only downside to his work is that the case studies are a bit unclear as to what the implications are as to what Fukui is trying to demonstrate in terms of policymaking in the LDP, with much of the clarifications limited to the conclusion rather than to the actual discussion itself. Otherwise this is an interesting read in the historical development and functions of the LDP.