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- Title
A MODEL OF FACTIONS IN THE JAPANESE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY .
- Authors
Benjamin, Roger; Morris, Wrliam; Ori, Kan
- Abstract
This article presents a model of factions in the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party. Perhaps most basic to a justification of this inquiry is the generality of the subject. The article considers the definition of factions as a system of leadership-followership in which a high degree of importance is placed within a party system or some significant tart thereof, on permanent or semi-permanent relationships involving substantial personal ties, which may also be formalized in some kind of institutional mold. This set of political behavior is clearly not confined to Japan, many European. South East Asian, and South Asian political systems exhibit similar tendencies. In fact, factions appear to be a highly typical response to the political consequences of rapid socio-economic change at a variety of developmental levels. Much of environment external to the factional system itself may be related to the level of political party institutionalization and its degree of competitiveness. In turn, party competitiveness and institutionalization levels are a function of the rate and sequence of political change and related social-economic and "cultural" factors.
- Subjects
JAPAN; POLITICAL science; POLITICAL parties; POLITICAL campaigns; DIVIDED government; SOUTH Asians
- Publication
Quality & Quantity, 1978, Vol 12, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0033-5177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00138659