Daniel M Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel M Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel M |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0131-0305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 521 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems
The share of women in politics is higher, on average, under closed-list proportional representation (PR) electoral systems compared to majoritarian systems. Yet, even in PR systems, progress toward gender parity has been slow and uneven. We argue that women’s representation and career progression under PR might be impeded when single-occupant positions, such as local mayor and list leader, serve as important stepping stones in political career pa…
Winning Elections with Unpopular Policies: Valence Advantage and Single-Party Dominance in Japan
Do voters support dominant parties in democracies because of policy preferences or non-policy (valence) factors? We consider the pre-eminent case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and investigate whether policy preferences or valence can better explain voting behavior in three recent elections (2017, 2021, 2024). We first introduce a new measurement strategy to infer individuals’ utility for parties’ policy platforms from conjoint experi…
Using Cell-phone Mobility Data to Study Voter Turnout
Studies of voting behavior in some settings may be hampered by poor data availability or unsuitably large units of aggregation for reported turnout. We propose and demonstrate a practical big-data solution to these kinds of challenges, using fine-grained cell-phone mobility data on millions of GPS locations for more than 300,000 eligible voters in Tokyo. Our approach uses the geolocations of polling stations, combined with GPS data points recorde…
Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids
Does war enhance or impede the long-term community-level development of social capital? While wartime mobilization and collective-action efforts might strengthen social ties, extreme destruction can potentially erase these effects. We use historical aerial photographs taken after the indiscriminate firebombing of Tokyo during World War II to measure conditionally independent microvariation in neighborhood-level damage and investigate the relation…
Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties
A key feature of parliamentary democracy is government accountability vis‐à‐vis the legislature, but the important question of who speaks for the government—cabinet ministers or unelected bureaucrats, and the institutional underpinnings of this behavior—receives scant attention in the existing literature. We investigate this question using the case of Japan, and data on more than four million committee speeches spanning distinct electoral and leg…
Is Increased Video Game Participation Associated With Reduced Sense of Loneliness? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the existing evidence in literature addressing the relationship between video game participation and loneliness. The following databases were searched on October 2, 2021: Medline, Psychinfo, SportDiscus, Web of Science, and CINAHL. The risk of bias of cross-sectional study was assessed by using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal checklist for analytical cross-sectional studie…
Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese General Election
Correspondence and Concordance of Retrospective and Concurrent Responses to Physiotherapists and Sport Psychology Questionnaire Items
Orthopedic and sport-related injuries are a major public health concern and a common reason for referral to physical therapy. The use of psychological techniques by physical therapists has been assessed in research studies primarily with retrospective self-report questionnaires that have not been validated against concurrent assessments of the same behaviors. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the results obtaine…
Workshops Without Borders: Building an Online Community of Japan Scholars
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Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese General Election
Just a Number? Voter Evaluations of Age in Candidate-Choice Experiments
Around the world, humans are living longer and politicians are getting older. But what do voters think about politicians of advanced age? We conduct a meta-analysis of 16 conjoint design-based candidate-choice experiments in seven democracies, revealing that older hypothetical candidates are consistently less likely to be favored by respondents—whether compared to the youngest alternative or the second-oldest alternative. We then report the findi…
Local Representation and Voter Mobilization in Closed-list Proportional Representation Systems
We investigate whether geographic representation affects local voting behavior in closed-list proportional representation (PR) systems, where conventional theoretical wisdom suggests a limited role of localism in voter preferences. Using detailed data on Norwegian parliamentary candidates’ hometowns, we show that parties engage in geographic balancing when constructing candidate lists. However, because most districts contain more municipalities t…
Gender and Dynastic Political Selection
Throughout history and across countries, women appear more likely than men to enter politics on the heels of a close family relative or spouse. To explain this dynastic bias in women’s representation, we introduce a theory that integrates political selection decisions with informational inequalities across social groups. Candidates with dynastic ties benefit from the established reputations of their predecessors, but these signals of quality are …
Identifying voter preferences for politicians’ personal attributes: A conjoint experiment in Japan
Although politicians’ personal attributes are an important component of elections and representation, few studies have rigorously investigated which attributes are most relevant in shaping voters’ preferences for politicians, or whether these preferences vary across different electoral system contexts. We investigate these questions with a conjoint survey experiment using the case of Japan’s mixed-member bicameral system. We find that the attribu…
Measuring the Competitiveness of Elections
The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent efforts to meet this challenge have introduced general measures of competitiveness which rest on explicit calculations about how votes translate into seats, bu…
Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation
A prominent line of theories holds that proportional representation (PR) was introduced in many European democracies by a fragmented bloc of conservative parties seeking to preserve their legislative seat shares after franchise extension and industrialization increased the vote base of socialist parties. In contrast to this “seat-maximization” account, we focus on how PR affected party leaders’ control over nominations, thereby enabling them to d…
Electoral Systems and Voter Turnout
What is the relationship between electoral rules and voter turnout? To answer this question, this chapter begins with the more general question of why voters turn out on Election Day at all. The chapter then reviews the main theoretical arguments and empirical evidence of how electoral rules affect voters’ turnout decisions, as well as the puzzles that have emerged from that literature. It then highlights some recent theoretical, methodological, …
Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan
Democracy is supposed to be the antithesis of hereditary rule by family dynasties. And yet “democratic dynasties” continue to persist in democracies around the world. They have been conspicuously prevalent in Japan, where more than a third of all legislators and two-thirds of all cabinet ministers in recent years have come from families with a history in parliament. Such a high proportion of dynasties is unusual and has sparked concerns over whet…
Measuring Voters’ Multidimensional Policy Preferences with Conjoint Analysis: Application to Japan’s 2014 Election
Representative democracy entails the aggregation of multiple policy issues by parties into competing bundles of policies, or “manifestos,” which are then evaluated holistically by voters in elections. This aggregation process obscures themultidimensionalpolicy preferences underlying a voter’ssinglechoice of party or candidate. We address this problem through a conjoint experiment based on the actual party manifestos in Japan’s 2014 House of Repre…
Political Dynasties and the Incumbency Advantage in Party-Centered Environments
A handful of recent studies have investigated the causal effect of incumbency on dynasty formation in candidate-centered electoral contexts. We use candidate-level data and a regression discontinuity design to estimate the incumbency advantage and its relation to dynasty formation in the party-centered, closed-list, proportional-representation setting of Norway. The results indicate that the incumbency advantage exists even in this party-centered…
Tōchi no jōken: Minshutō ni miru seiken unei to tōnai tōchi (Party Government and Party Governance: The Case of the Democratic Party of Japan)
Political Dynasties in Democracies: Causes, Consequences and Remaining Puzzles
Kinship often continues to play an important role in determining the ruling class even under modern democratic elections in a wide range of countries. In recent years, academic interest in the causes and consequences of such dynasties has been rapidly expanding. In this introduction to the Feature, we review existing work on political dynasties’ formation and potential implications for socio‐economic outcomes (such as economic growth, distributiv…
Norwegian parliamentary elections, 1906–2013: Representation and Turnout Across Four Electoral Systems
Since gaining full independence in 1905, Norway has experienced more than a century of democratic elections, and has reformed its electoral system three times, most notably with the switch from a two-round runoff system to proportional representation in 1919. This research note introduces a new dataset featuring all candidates running for parliamentary (Storting) elections from 1906 to 2013, and documents the patterns over time and across elector…
Political Dynasties and the Selection of Cabinet Ministers
We investigate whether politicians whose family relatives previously served in parliament and cabinet enjoy a competitive “legacy advantage” in progressing from the backbenches to cabinet. This advantage may stem from two potential mechanisms: a direct effect attributable to the informational advantages of legacies or an indirect effect that operates through greater electoral strength. We evaluate the relative contribution of each mechanism using…
Local candidates and voter mobilization: Evidence from historical two-round elections in Norway
Parliamentary Control of Coalition Governments
Parliamentary democracy means that the political executive is accountable to the parliamentary majority. However, when both the parliamentary majority and the cabinet consist of two or more distinct political parties, it is often difficult for the parliamentary majority to monitor and control the executive. In this article, we focus on political delegation from parliamentarians to the executive branch under multiparty parliamentary government. We…
Identifying voter preferences for politicians’ personal attributes: A conjoint experiment in Japan
Although politicians’ personal attributes are an important component of elections and representation, few studies have rigorously investigated which attributes are most relevant in shaping voters’ preferences for politicians, or whether these preferences vary across different electoral system contexts. We investigate these questions with a conjoint survey experiment using the case of Japan’s mixed-member bicameral system. We find that the attribu…
Measuring Voters’ Multidimensional Policy Preferences with Conjoint Analysis: Application to Japan’s 2014 Election
Representative democracy entails the aggregation of multiple policy issues by parties into competing bundles of policies, or “manifestos,” which are then evaluated holistically by voters in elections. This aggregation process obscures themultidimensionalpolicy preferences underlying a voter’ssinglechoice of party or candidate. We address this problem through a conjoint experiment based on the actual party manifestos in Japan’s 2014 House of Repre…
Political Dynasties and the Incumbency Advantage in Party-Centered Environments
A handful of recent studies have investigated the causal effect of incumbency on dynasty formation in candidate-centered electoral contexts. We use candidate-level data and a regression discontinuity design to estimate the incumbency advantage and its relation to dynasty formation in the party-centered, closed-list, proportional-representation setting of Norway. The results indicate that the incumbency advantage exists even in this party-centered…
Political Dynasties and the Selection of Cabinet Ministers
We investigate whether politicians whose family relatives previously served in parliament and cabinet enjoy a competitive “legacy advantage” in progressing from the backbenches to cabinet. This advantage may stem from two potential mechanisms: a direct effect attributable to the informational advantages of legacies or an indirect effect that operates through greater electoral strength. We evaluate the relative contribution of each mechanism using…
Just a Number? Voter Evaluations of Age in Candidate-Choice Experiments
Around the world, humans are living longer and politicians are getting older. But what do voters think about politicians of advanced age? We conduct a meta-analysis of 16 conjoint design-based candidate-choice experiments in seven democracies, revealing that older hypothetical candidates are consistently less likely to be favored by respondents—whether compared to the youngest alternative or the second-oldest alternative. We then report the findi…
Measuring the Competitiveness of Elections
The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness at the district level across alternative electoral systems. Recent efforts to meet this challenge have introduced general measures of competitiveness which rest on explicit calculations about how votes translate into seats, bu…
Gender and Dynastic Political Selection
Throughout history and across countries, women appear more likely than men to enter politics on the heels of a close family relative or spouse. To explain this dynastic bias in women’s representation, we introduce a theory that integrates political selection decisions with informational inequalities across social groups. Candidates with dynastic ties benefit from the established reputations of their predecessors, but these signals of quality are …
The Contraction Effect: How Proportional Representation Affects Mobilization and Turnout
A substantial body of research examines whether increasing the proportionality of an electoral system increases turnout, mostly based on cross-national comparisons. In this study, we offer two main contributions to the previous literature. First, we show that moving from a single-member district system to proportional representation in multimember districts should, according to recent theories of elite mobilization, produce a contraction in the d…
Local candidates and voter mobilization: Evidence from historical two-round elections in Norway
Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation
A prominent line of theories holds that proportional representation (PR) was introduced in many European democracies by a fragmented bloc of conservative parties seeking to preserve their legislative seat shares after franchise extension and industrialization increased the vote base of socialist parties. In contrast to this “seat-maximization” account, we focus on how PR affected party leaders’ control over nominations, thereby enabling them to d…
Candidate selection methods and policy cohesion in parties: The impact of open recruitment in Japan
The method of candidate selection used by parties can influence a number of outcomes related to party organization and representation. In the past decade, Japan’s political parties have increasingly experimented with an ‘open recruitment’ system for selecting new candidates for national elections, but the degree of centralization in the process varies by party. We use candidate and voter survey data to assess whether the new system of recruitment…
Political Dynasties in Democracies: Causes, Consequences and Remaining Puzzles
Kinship often continues to play an important role in determining the ruling class even under modern democratic elections in a wide range of countries. In recent years, academic interest in the causes and consequences of such dynasties has been rapidly expanding. In this introduction to the Feature, we review existing work on political dynasties’ formation and potential implications for socio‐economic outcomes (such as economic growth, distributiv…
Norwegian parliamentary elections, 1906–2013: Representation and Turnout Across Four Electoral Systems
Since gaining full independence in 1905, Norway has experienced more than a century of democratic elections, and has reformed its electoral system three times, most notably with the switch from a two-round runoff system to proportional representation in 1919. This research note introduces a new dataset featuring all candidates running for parliamentary (Storting) elections from 1906 to 2013, and documents the patterns over time and across elector…
Local Representation and Voter Mobilization in Closed-list Proportional Representation Systems
We investigate whether geographic representation affects local voting behavior in closed-list proportional representation (PR) systems, where conventional theoretical wisdom suggests a limited role of localism in voter preferences. Using detailed data on Norwegian parliamentary candidates’ hometowns, we show that parties engage in geographic balancing when constructing candidate lists. However, because most districts contain more municipalities t…
Coalition Government and Party Mandate: How Coalition Agreements Constrain Ministerial Action
Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids
Does war enhance or impede the long-term community-level development of social capital? While wartime mobilization and collective-action efforts might strengthen social ties, extreme destruction can potentially erase these effects. We use historical aerial photographs taken after the indiscriminate firebombing of Tokyo during World War II to measure conditionally independent microvariation in neighborhood-level damage and investigate the relation…
Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties
A key feature of parliamentary democracy is government accountability vis‐à‐vis the legislature, but the important question of who speaks for the government—cabinet ministers or unelected bureaucrats, and the institutional underpinnings of this behavior—receives scant attention in the existing literature. We investigate this question using the case of Japan, and data on more than four million committee speeches spanning distinct electoral and leg…
National Interest and American Intervention, 1917: An Historiographical Appraisal
Journal Article National Interest and American Intervention, 1917: An Historiographical Appraisal Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith professor of history University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 1, June 1965, Pages 2–24, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901121 Published: 01 June 1965
You have to pay to play: Candidate and party responses to the high cost of elections in Japan
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems
The share of women in politics is higher, on average, under closed-list proportional representation (PR) electoral systems compared to majoritarian systems. Yet, even in PR systems, progress toward gender parity has been slow and uneven. We argue that women’s representation and career progression under PR might be impeded when single-occupant positions, such as local mayor and list leader, serve as important stepping stones in political career pa…
Aftermath of War: Bainbridge Colby and Wilsonian Diplomacy 1920-1921
Journal Article Aftermath of War: Bainbridge Colby and Wilsonian Diplomacy 1920–1921. By Daniel M. Smith. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1970. vii + 173 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $2.00.) Get access Lawrence E. Gelfand Lawrence E. Gelfand University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 4, March 1971, Pages 946–947, https://doi.org/10…
Heir to Empire: United States Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923
Journal Article Heir To Empire: United States Economic Diplomacy, 1916–1923. By Carl P. Parrini. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969. x + 303 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $8.95.) Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 1, June 1970, Pages 188–189, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900621 Publ…
Bainbridge Colby and the Good Neighbor Policy, 1920-1921
Journal Article Bainbridge Colby and the Good Neighbor Policy, 1920–1921 Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 50, Issue 1, June 1963, Pages 56–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888982 Published: 01 June 1963
Robert Lansing and the Formulation of American Neutrality Policies, 1914-1915
Journal Article Robert Lansing and the Formulation of American Neutrality Policies, 1914–1915 Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 43, Issue 1, June 1956, Pages 59–81, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895283 Published: 01 June 1956
Robert Lansing and the Formulation of American Neutrality Policies, 1914-1915
Journal Article Robert Lansing and the Formulation of American Neutrality Policies, 1914–1915 Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 43, Issue 1, June 1956, Pages 59–81, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895283 Published: 01 June 1956
Robert Lansing and the Wilson Interregnum, 1919‐1920
(1959). Robert Lansing and the Wilson Interregnum, 1919‐1920. The Historian: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 135-161
Robert Lansing and American Neutrality, 1914-1917
Journal Article Robert Lansing and American Neutrality, 1914–1917. By Daniel M. Smith. University of California Publications in History, Volume 59. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958. vi + 241 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $5.00.) Get access Roy Watson Curry Roy Watson Curry Carnegie Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914-1915
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The Rising American Empire
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The Navy League of the United States
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Bainbridge Colby and the Good Neighbor Policy, 1920-1921
Journal Article Bainbridge Colby and the Good Neighbor Policy, 1920–1921 Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 50, Issue 1, June 1963, Pages 56–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888982 Published: 01 June 1963
The United States and the First Hague Peace Conference
Journal Article The United States and the First Hague Peace Conference. By Calvin De-Armond Davis. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, for the American Historical Association, 1962. xiv + 236 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $5.00.) Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 50, Issue 2, Septe…
The Inquiry: American Preparations for Peace, 1917-1919
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
National Interest and American Intervention, 1917: An Historiographical Appraisal
Journal Article National Interest and American Intervention, 1917: An Historiographical Appraisal Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith professor of history University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 1, June 1965, Pages 2–24, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901121 Published: 01 June 1965
American Support of Free Elections Abroad
Diplomat among Warriors. Robert Murphy
The American Revisionists: The Lessons of Intervention in World War I
The Roots of American Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Power and Purpose
Walter Hines Page: Ambassador to the Court of St. James's
Journal Article Walter Hines Page: Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. By Ross Gregory. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press for The Organization of American Historians, 1970. xii + 236 pp. Notes, bibliographical note, and index. $8.50.) Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 3, December 1970, P…
Heir to Empire: United States Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923
Journal Article Heir To Empire: United States Economic Diplomacy, 1916–1923. By Carl P. Parrini. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969. x + 303 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $8.95.) Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 1, June 1970, Pages 188–189, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900621 Publ…
Aftermath of War: Bainbridge Colby and Wilsonian Diplomacy 1920-1921
Journal Article Aftermath of War: Bainbridge Colby and Wilsonian Diplomacy 1920–1921. By Daniel M. Smith. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1970. vii + 173 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $2.00.) Get access Lawrence E. Gelfand Lawrence E. Gelfand University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 4, March 1971, Pages 946–947, https://doi.org/10…
The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War
No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II
Journal Article No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II. By Bruce M. Russett. (New York: Harper & Row, 1972. 111 pp. Map, notes, and index. Cloth, $6.00; paper, $1.95.) Get access Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 2, September 1973, Pages 503–504, https://doi…
Authoritarianism and American Policy Makers in Two World Wars
Research Article| August 01 1974 Authoritarianism and American Policy Makers in Two World Wars Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1974) 43 (3): 303–323. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638259 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Pe…
Admirals, Generals, and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1914 by Richard D. Challener
Book Review| January 01 1975 Admirals, Generals, and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1914 by Richard D. Challener Admirals, Generals, and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1914. By Challener, Richard D.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. 433, including bibliography and index. $16. Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1975) 74 (1): 130–1…
Makers of American Diplomacy: From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Kissinger ed. by Frank J. Merli, Theodore A. Wilson
Book Review| October 01 1975 Makers of American Diplomacy: From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Kissinger ed. by Frank J. Merli, Theodore A. Wilson Makers of American Diplomacy: From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Kissinger. Edited by Merli, Frank J.; Wilson, Theodore A.. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974. Pp. 728. $17.50. Daniel M. Smith Daniel M. Smith University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic…
The United Nations Security Insurance Agency (Unsia) proposal
Parliamentary Control of Coalition Governments
Parliamentary democracy means that the political executive is accountable to the parliamentary majority. However, when both the parliamentary majority and the cabinet consist of two or more distinct political parties, it is often difficult for the parliamentary majority to monitor and control the executive. In this article, we focus on political delegation from parliamentarians to the executive branch under multiparty parliamentary government. We…
The 2012 Election Results: The LDP Wins Big by Default
On 16 December 2012, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had been swept from power in August 2009 after more than half a century of dominance, roared back with a landslide of its own. Entering the election with only 118 of 480 seats in the House of Representatives (HR), the lower house of the National Diet, the LDP emerged with a stomping majority of 294. Moreover, the LDP and its long-time coalition partner, Komeito, jointly surpassed …
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