Theories of Government Formation and the 1996 General Election in Japan
Theories of Government Formation and the 1996 General Election in Japan
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政府组建理论与1996年日本大选
DOI：
10.1177/1354068898004002005
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发表时间：
1998
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影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
M. Laver
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作者：
J. Kato;M. Laver
本文借鉴了西欧议会民主国家政府组建的若干理论，并将其应用于1996年大选后日本的政府组建过程。这些模式突显了自民党在政府组建过程中的持续重要性，尽管失去了绝对多数。政府组建模型在日本案件中的应用，也突显了将政党视为单一行为者的典型假设的弱点。因此，论文最后对如何有效地放松这一假设，以纳入政党派系、分裂和融合，从而产生更动态的政府组建和解体模型进行了一些猜测。
This paper takes a number of theories that have been used to analyse government formation in West European parliamentary democracies and applies them to the government formation process in Japan after the 1996 general election. These models underline the continuing importance of the LDP in the government formation process, despite the loss of its overall majority. The application of government formation models to the Japanese case also highlights the weakness of the typical assumption that sees parties as unitary actors. The paper thus concludes with some speculations as to how this assumption might usefully be relaxed to incorporate party factions, splits and fusions and thereby generate more dynamic models of the making and breaking of governments.