Abstract
Japanese electoral politics and leadership in the past decade have been anything but stable. Both the 2009 and 2012 House of Representatives (HR) elections resulted in landslide defeats for the party in power. Between the 2005 and 2009 elections, Japan was led by four separate Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) prime ministers in as many years, including Shinzou Abe in his first short-lived administration (2006–2007). Between the 2009 and 2012 elections, there were three years with three more prime ministers, this time hailing from the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).
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Pekkanen, R.J., Reed, S.R., Smith, D.M. (2016). Japanese Politics Between the 2012 and 2014 Elections. In: Pekkanen, R.J., Reed, S.R., Scheiner, E. (eds) Japan Decides 2014. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137552006_2
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