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日時：2024年7月3日（水）15:30～17:30

報告題目：Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan

報告者：Amy Catalinac [the Department of Politics of New York University]

場所：東京大学本郷キャンパス赤門総合研究棟5階　センター会議室（549号室）
　　　http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_08_02_j.html

言語：英語

開催形式：対面

対象：一般公開

報告要旨：Japan is the fourth largest economy in the world and an important
ally of the United States. Yet its politics are highly anomalous: it has
been ruled almost continuously by a single party since that party's
formation in 1955. My book offers a new theory, group-based clientelism,
that can account for this puzzle. The theory holds that under the right
institutional conditions, democratically-elected politicians will be
able to form clientelistic relationships with groups of voters in their
electoral districts. By this, I mean they will be able to tie the amount
of central government resources groups of voters receive to the level of
electoral support they provide. I further argue that in Japan's case,
the sheer dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party has allowed
politicians to pit groups of voters against each other in a competition
for resources, what I call a tournament. Leveraging a wealth of
quantitative and qualitative data over the thirty five-year period from
1980 to 2014, I show that tournaments have been a key component of LDP
electoral strategies since 1980. The book provides a new lens through
which we can understand many facets of Japanese politics, such as the
LDP's longevity, the weakness of the opposition, the source of internal
conflicts in the LDP, the truncated effect of Japan's 1994 electoral
reform, and discrepancies in what voters want and what the LDP provides.

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