Japan Decides 2014 (PDF)

Masahisa Endo, Lecturer at Faculty of Humanities and Economics, Kochi University, Japan
Alisa Gaunder, Professor of Political Science, Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas
Ken Victor Leonard Hijino, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University, Japan
Llewelyn Hughes, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU)
Fumi Ikeda, Chuo University, Japan
Koji Kagotani, Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Osaka University of Economics, Japan
Saori N. Katada, Associate Professor, School of International Relations and the Director of the Political Science and International Relations (POIR) Program, University of Southern California, USA
Jeff Kingston, Director of Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan
Axel Klein, Professor of Modern East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Ellis S. Krauss, Emeritus Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California San Diego, USA
Patricia L. Maclachlan, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, University of Texas, USA
Yukio Maeda, Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
Douglas M. Miller, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA
Kenneth Mori McElwain, Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Gregory Noble, Professor of Politics and Public Administration, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Robert J. Pekkanen, Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of Washington, USA
Steven R. Reed, Professor of Modern Government, Chuo University, Japan
Ethan Scheiner, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, USA
Kay Shimizu, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, USA
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'The authors of this comprehensive analysis of the 2014 general election in Japan have produced one of the most important studies of Japanese electoral politics to appear in many years. It is essential reading for anyone - student, scholar and policy maker - interested not only in the 2014 election, but in Japan's political democracy and its future.' Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, USA

'Japan Decides 2014 reveals how Prime Minister Abe caught the opposition flat-footed by calling an early election and succeeded in using his third-straight win at the polls to claim a mandate for policy changes that weren't even emphasized in the campaign. Anyone trying to understand where Japan is headed under Abe needs to read this book.' Leonard J. Schoppa, Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, USA

'The 2014 election as Abe's 'masterful strategic stroke' ever heard such words about Japanese politics? This book's 21 concise, well written chapters dissect the causes and effects of the remarkable election from all angles. They add up to the best overview I know of Japanese politics today.' John Creighton Campbell, Project Researcher, Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo University, Japan, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Michigan, USA