Political traditions and political change: The significance of postwar Japanese politics for political science

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2001, Pages 93-115

  Richardson, Bradley ^a   Patterson, Dennis ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent institutionalism; Electoral mobilization; Fragmentation dynamic; Informal structure; Negotiated parliamentarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649526     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.4.1.93     Document Type: Review

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