Abstract
The 2012 election swept the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) back into power after only a little over three years in the political wilderness. The scale of the victory was staggering but due mainly to a rejection of the DPJ government, not the popularity of the LDP (Reed, Scheiner, Smith and Thies, this volume). That the LDP actually won fewer total votes in its “greatest victory” of 2012 than it had in its “worst loss” of 2009 is finely ironic—but entirely consistent with our analysis.
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Endo, M., Pekkanen, R., Reed, S.R. (2013). The LDP’s Path Back to Power. In: Pekkanen, R., Reed, S.R., Scheiner, E. (eds) Japan Decides 2012. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346124_5
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