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Informal Politics in East Asia by Lowell Dittmer, Haruhiro Fukui, Peter N. S. Lee

By Lowell Dittmer, Haruhiro Fukui, Peter N. S. Lee

The authors of casual Politics in East Asia argue that political interplay in the casual size (behind-the-scenes politics) is at the very least as universal and influential, even though now not constantly as obvious or coherent, as formal politics. This publication is a pioneering attempt to delineate a few of the sorts of casual politics inside of various East Asian political cultures and to improve a few universal theoretical ideas for knowing how they paintings. Featured listed below are contributions through political scientists focusing on the areas of China, Taiwan, Japan, the Korean peninsula, and Vietnam.

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See Haruhiro Fukui and Shigeko Fukai, "Japan in 1996: Between hope and uncertainty," Asian Survey 37:1 (January 1997), pp. 23-24. See also Eugene L. Wolfe, "Japanese electoral and political reform: Role of the young Turks," and Steven R. Reed, 'The nomina­ tion process for Japan's next general election: Waiting for the Heiretsu-sei," both in Asian S11rvey 35:12 (December 1995), pp. 1059-1074 and 1075-1086. 2 Haruhiro Fukui and Shigeko Fukai, "Nihon ni okeru infomaru politikkusu ro itto yui taisei: kesu sutade ro shoho riron" [Informal politics in Japan and the predominant-party regime: A case study and rudimentary theory), Leviathan 9 (Fall 1991), p.

Her husband belonged to the LDP faction led by Toshio Komoto, and Moriyama therefore also ran as that faction's prospective mem­ ber. On the other hand, the third LDP incumbent from the Tochigi-1 dis­ trict, a young first-termer, Hajime Funada, who was a member of Kakuei Tanaka's faction and whose father and Tochigi's governor at the time had long been her husband's ally, lent Moriyama a helping hand. One of the two LDP lower house incumbents from the Tochigi-2 district, Toshiyuki Inamura, interestingly a Nakasone faction member like Watanabe, was also an old ally of her husband's and helped Moriyama run her campaign in that part of the prefecture.

She declined the invitation at first, mainly because she thought that she had neither the campaign funds nor the public visibility needed for a successful bid for a Diet seat. She had, how­ ever, served as a bureau director in the Labor Ministry for five years and had played a prominent role in mobilizing Japanese government and public sup­ port for the United Nations Decade of Women, 1975-1985. ) T hat experience had given her name some visibility. Moreover, she had reached as high a position in the bureaucracy as a woman in Japan's central government bureaucracy could realistically hope to reach.

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