POL215Y1 Lecture Notes - Pork Barrel, Ethnocentrism, Ministry Of International Trade And Industry
19 Nov 2012
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They couldn"t appease the productivity faction because of the pork barrel activities. Alternative explanation why the ldp could dominate japanese politics for so long- cultural argument. Haddad article less ethnocentric view of what democracy is. State and society argument that state arises from society, the state was not a unitary actor but was actually rooted into society, bringing society back in. We cant just look at the state when looking at democratic consolidation but also society. Looking at the practice of civil society organizations to understand the democratic values of the japanese society as a whole. Ldp civil society was still authoritarian, culturally the japanese population was not ready. The state and the society culture is not static, it can evolve. The community itself and the democratic and authoritarian values can be transformed by the institutions. Sentv proportional representation. before electoral reform, multiple members of the same party could run in the same constituency.
