MOBILIZING ELECTORAL SUPPORT: A STUDY OF A LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATE’S CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES IN THE 1967 LOWER HOUSE ELECTION IN JAPAN.
Abstract
This study examines the strategies of support mobilization utilized by a candidate for election to the Lower House of the Japanese Diet in the election held in January 1967. The candidate, Sato Bunsei, ran as a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from the Second District of Oita Prefecture in Kyushu. The study is based on material gathered by the author over a period of fifteen months of living in the home of the candidate and observing the-campaign. The study deals with the following major issues: the process of receiving LDP endorsement as an official Party candidate; the differing structures of campaign organization in rural and urban sectors of the constituency; the organization and function of a Koenkai, a supporters organization;the role played in Sato's campaign by interest groups and other voluntary associations; and the conduct of both the unofficial and official campaign. The general conceptual framework for this study is as follows. In every system of representative democracy
Publisher
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
Subject
POLITICAL SCIENCECollections
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