Pipelines of pork Japanese politics and a model of local opposition party failure

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 799-823

  Scheiner, Ethan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clientelism; Fiscal federalism; Japanese politics; One party dominance; Party competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944515482     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414005277020     Document Type: Review

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