Understanding Japan's Political System and Global Electoral Systems

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What is the name of Japan's political system?

What was the party system in Japan between 1955 and 1993, known for featuring the LDP and the Socialist Party?

What is the legislative branch of the Japanese political system called, which is bicameral and composed of two houses?

Which party was the permanent opposition to the LDP in Japan and was known for being comparatively progressive?

What is the abbreviation for the Japan Communist Party?

Which minor political party in Japan, linked to the Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai, became a future LDP coalition partner?

In which election did the LDP lose power due to corruption scandals and internal splits?

Which coalition government in Japan, led by Hosokawa, marked a break in the continuity of LDP rule?

What is the name of Japan's conservative political party that has governed since 1955?

Which social democratic party in Japan was formed from the merger of reform-minded opposition parties in 1998?

Which article of the Japanese constitution renounces Japan's right to wage war?

Who is the conservative nationalist LDP member who served as Japan's prime minister twice?

What is the name of Abe's three-tiered plan for economic recovery in Japan?

What term describes extra-legal policy directives from Japanese government officials to the private sector?

What is the term for the practice where retiring Japanese senior bureaucrats take up positions in corporations or run for political office?

What is Japan's modern neomercantilist state, which embraces both private property and state economic intervention, called?

What is the name of the upper and weaker chamber of Japan's parliament?

What is the name of the lower and more powerful chamber of Japan's parliament?

In which year did the LDP lose power to the DPJ in Japan?

In which year did the LDP return to power, with the DPJ blamed for mismanaging Fukushima?

What term describes Japanese firms rendered essentially bankrupt during Japan's recession but propped up by banks and politicians?

What term describes the situation where no party or coalition controls both chambers of the Japanese parliament, common since 2007?

Which military clan unified and ruled Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries?

What is the term for a dominant lord in feudal Japan?

What is the name of Japan's military, which is ostensibly permitted only defensive capacity?

What is the term for Japan's feudal-era warrior retainers?

What was Tokugawa Japan's policy of enforced isolation, lasting from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, called?

What term describes government appropriation or other policy supplying funds for local improvements to ingratiate legislators with their constituents?

Who is the long-serving Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives known for his influence?

Which Japanese prefecture is composed of several island archipelagoes and hosts several controversial U.S. military bases?

What was Japan's 1867-68 'revolution from above,' which launched Japan's modernization in the name of the Meiji emperor, called?

Who is the founder of the Party of Hope and the current (first female) governor of Tokyo?

What term describes the conservative alliances among Japan's elite bureaucrats, conservative politicians, and big-business executives?

What are government measures designed to promote economic and industrial development called?

What were the objectives of the 1994 electoral reform in Japan?

What is the term for Japan's largest business groupings?

Who is the prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party since September 2021?

What are Japan's local campaign organizations, designed to support an individual candidate rather than a particular political party, called?

Who were the vanguard of junior samurai that led Japan's nineteenth-century modernization drive?

Which minor political party in Japan, linked to the Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai, became an LDP coalition partner?

Who was the U.S. general who presided over the seven-year occupation of Japan?

Who was the Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 2021, replaced by the current Prime Minister Kishida?

What term describes the liberal and democratic trend across political, economic, and cultural fields in Japan, distancing the state from feudalism?

What coalition came after the Hosokawa coalition when the Socialists left and joined the LDP, with Murayama as prime minister?

Who was the Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006, followed by Abe, who resigned after one year in office?

In which year did the LDP lose power to the DPJ in Japan?

What is the term for the 'simplest' family of electoral systems where a candidate need only obtain more votes than their opponent to win?

What is the electoral system where voters cast one vote for a single candidate, and the first candidate to get the most votes wins?

What is the electoral system where if no candidate obtains greater than 50% of the vote on the first round, the two top candidates advance to the second round?

What is the electoral system where voters rank candidates on the ballot in terms of preference, also known as Instant Runoff Voting?

What is the electoral system where seats are allocated based on the proportion or percentage of votes a party gets within an election?

What is the electoral system that is like Alternative Vote but in the PR family, used primarily in Ireland and Malta?

What is the term for the PR system where voters get to choose the candidate within the list of candidates created by the party?

What is the term for the PR system where voters vote for the party rather than an individual candidate, and the list of candidates is ranked by the party?

What is the mixed electoral system used in Germany and New Zealand, where each member has two votes for the candidate and the party?

What is the mixed electoral system also called parallel systems, used in about twenty countries including Japan and South Korea?

What is Duverger's law in political science, which holds that in political systems with only one winner, two main parties tend to emerge?

What term describes deceit or trickery, often associated with corruption, and can happen anywhere?

What is the term for when a person holding office dishonestly and illegally appropriates funds for personal enrichment?

What term describes corruption involving major players in the political system, with highly significant amounts of money?

What term describes corruption involving lower-level officials and smaller amounts of money?

What theory in economics defines corruption as a corrupt exchange between principals and agents?

What term describes corruption narratives focusing on individuals with a propensity to do bad things?

What is SOP Corruption, where an organization develops corrupt norms that everyone participates in?

What term describes corruption that has been edified and reified into existing practices and institutions?

What is the Corruptions Perceptions Index (CPI) that ranks countries by their perceived levels of corruption?

What is the Carlson and Reed (C+R) definition of corruption, rooted in organizations or incentives created by political structures?

What is the C+R Legal definition of corruption, where politicians violate newer, stricter laws by continuing past corrupt behavior?

What is the definition of corruption according to Fisman and Goldman, involving the exploitation of public office for private gain?

What term describes illegal activities before, during, or after an election, intended to alter the outcome?

What term describes the intrusion of big business' money into public life?

What term describes the abuse of public office by bureaucrats?

What term describes the abuse of public office by elected officials?

What term describes officials assigned on the basis of loyal partisanship, falling between bureaucrats and politicians?

What is the term for a small group of individuals exercising power over the state, with the government not constitutionally responsible to the public?

What is the term for a regime that seeks to control and transform all aspects of the state, society, and economy, often using violence?

What is the term for a political approach that is anti-institutional, often led by a charismatic leader claiming to represent the will of the people?

What term describes the use of fear to discourage opposition, with public obedience enforced through violence and surveillance?

What term describes the strategy of arresting protest leaders rather than using indiscriminate violence?

What are the problems associated with coercion, such as undermining legitimacy and creating widespread grievances?

What is the term for a strategy where members of the public are brought into a beneficial relationship with the state and government?

What is the term for creating a sanctioned or limited number of organizations to represent the interests of the public?

What is the process whereby the state co-opts members of the public by providing specific benefits or favors in return for public support?

What is the term for when the public is encouraged to obey the leader based on his or her extraordinary qualities or ideas?

What is the term for a form of co-optation often relied on by personal and monarchical rule, exchanging political benefits for popular support?

What is the term for rule by one or more military officials, often brought to power through a coup d'état?

What is the term for a regime where the state bureaucracy and military leadership support a technocracy to avoid subjective leadership?

What is the term for rule by an elected leadership through procedures of questionable democratic legitimacy?

What is the term for 'rule by theft,' where those in power seek only to drain the state of assets and resources?

What is the theory of development where the existence of natural resources in a state is a barrier to modernization and democracy?

What term describes privileged economic benefits mediated by political power?

What is the term for a regime in which a single political party monopolizes politics and bans other parties?

What is the term for a government system where priests rule in the name of God?

What is the term for charismatic/traditional legitimacy, where one person is claimed to be fit to run the country?

What is the term for a government practice that allows the government to prevent opposition from organizing and instills uncertainty?

Priests rule in the name of God

charismatic/traditional legitimacy- rests on claim that one person is fit to run the country (they alone embody the people)

allows govt to prevent opposition from organizing and instills uncertainty

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