Robert Pekkanen
Biographic Data
| ID | 537167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Pekkanen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pekkanen |
| SIGNATURE | PEKKANEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics
The study of Japanese politics has flourished over the past several decades. This Handbook provides a state-of-the-field overview for students and researchers of Japanese. The volume also serves to introduce Japanese politics to readers less familiar with Japan. In addition, the volume has a theme of “evaluating Japan’s democracy.” Taken as a whole, the volume provides a positive evaluation of the state of Japan’s democracy. The volume is divided…
Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan: Volume 1
The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems
No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before-and sometimes long after—they occur. Electoral systems, the rules about how voters’ preferences are translated into election results, profoundly shape not only the results of individual elections but also many other important political outcomes including party systems, candidate…
Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment
Over-nominating candidates, undermining the party: The collective action problem under SNTV in Japan
Any political party has a profound interest in maximizing seats, which in turn requires running the optimum number of candidates. However, to do this presumes solving a collective action problem among self-interested party members or leaders, and is deeply conditioned by the electoral system. The case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party under the Single Non-Transferable Vote electoral system provides a superb illustration of how party leaders, ev…
Japan Decides 2012: The Japanese General Election
The 2012 election in Japan ejected the governing DPJ and returned the LDP overwhelmingly to power while brand new parties pulled in millions of voters. This book explains what happened, why it happene
When Do Interest Groups Contact Bureaucrats Rather than Politicians? Evidence on Fire Alarms and Smoke Detectors from Japan
What determines whether interest groups choose to contact politicians or bureaucrats? Despite the importance of this question for policymaking, democracy, and some prominent principal-agent understandings of politics, it is relatively unexplored in the literature. We argue that government stability plays a major part in interest groups’ decisions. That is, central to interest groups’ decisions is their assessment of the likelihood that politician…
Legislative organization in MMP: The case of New Zealand
How do electoral systems affect legislative organization? The change in electoral systems from Single Member District plurality (SMD) to Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) in New Zealand can illuminate how electoral incentives affect the distribution of cabinet positions. Because in SMD the outcome of individual local districts determines the number of seats a party wins collectively, New Zealand parties deploy cabinet posts in order to shore up the…
Reverse Contamination: Burning and Building Bridges in Mixed-Member Systems
Why would a candidate in a mixed-member electoral system willingly forego the chance to be dual listed in the party list tier along with the single-member district tier? Mixed-member systems create a “reverse contamination effect” through which list rankings provide important information to voters and thus influence behavior in the nominal tier. Rankings signal importance of the candidate within the party and also constitute information about the…
Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia: Straddling State and Society
1.State-Linked Associational Life: Illuminating Blind Spots of Existing Paradigms Benjamin L. Read 2. Japan's Neighborhood Associations: Membership without Advocacy Robert Pekkanen 3. Swaying Between State and Community: The Role of RT/RW in Post-Suharto Indonesia Aiko Kurasawa 4. The Mutual Colonization of State and Civil Society Organizations in Vietnam Joseph Hannah 5. Municipal Governments and the Role of Cooperative Community Groups in Thail…
Policy Dissension and Party Discipline: The July 2005 Vote on Postal Privatization in Japan
This article examines party discipline and party cohesion or defection, offering as an illustration the rebellion over postal privatization in 2005 by members of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). It explores the importance of party rules – especially the seniority rule and policy specialization for district rewards – as intervening variables between election rules and party defection in a decentralized and diverse party. It is argued that i…
Civil Society and Interest Groups in Contemporary Japan
book
Japan’s Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates
This book provides an overview of the state of Japan's civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why Japan differs so much from other industrialized democracies. It offers a new interpretation of why Japan's civil society has developed as it has, with many small, local groups but few large, professionally managed national organizations. The book further asks what the consequences of that pattern of development ar…
Electoral Incentives in Mixed-Member Systems: Party, Posts, and Zombie Politicians in Japan
How do electoral incentives affect legislative organization? Through an analysis of Japan's mixed-member electoral system, we demonstrate that legislative organization is strongly influenced not only by the individual legislators reelection incentives but also by their interest in their party gaining power and maintaining a strong party label. Electorally vulnerable legislators are given choice legislative positions to enhance their prospects at …
Japan's “Coalition of the Willing” on Security Policies
Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of the LDP
This article traces the effects of Japan's 1994 electoral reform on Japan's governing party, the LDP. Factions have lost their central role in nominating candidates and deciding the party presidency but remain important in allocating party and Diet posts. Unexpectedly, koenkai have grown stronger because they perform new functions. PARC remains important but diminished by the enhanced policymaking role of party leaders in the coalition government…
Molding Japanese Civil Society: State-Structured Incentives and the Patterning of Civil Society
What is the role of the State in the development of civil society? Rather than a simplistic, oppositional relationship, the state's influence has typically been to shape, not suppress, civil society. Through its direct and indirect structuring of incentives, the State promotes a particular pattern of civil society organization; political institutions structure the "rules of the game," which in part determine who plays and who flourishes. This per…
Japan's New Politics: The Case of the NPO Law
The End of Political Science? Rational Choice Analyses in Studies of Japanese Politics
Electoral Incentives in Mixed-Member Systems: Party, Posts, and Zombie Politicians in Japan
How do electoral incentives affect legislative organization? Through an analysis of Japan's mixed-member electoral system, we demonstrate that legislative organization is strongly influenced not only by the individual legislators reelection incentives but also by their interest in their party gaining power and maintaining a strong party label. Electorally vulnerable legislators are given choice legislative positions to enhance their prospects at …
Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of the LDP
This article traces the effects of Japan's 1994 electoral reform on Japan's governing party, the LDP. Factions have lost their central role in nominating candidates and deciding the party presidency but remain important in allocating party and Diet posts. Unexpectedly, koenkai have grown stronger because they perform new functions. PARC remains important but diminished by the enhanced policymaking role of party leaders in the coalition government…
Policy Dissension and Party Discipline: The July 2005 Vote on Postal Privatization in Japan
This article examines party discipline and party cohesion or defection, offering as an illustration the rebellion over postal privatization in 2005 by members of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). It explores the importance of party rules – especially the seniority rule and policy specialization for district rewards – as intervening variables between election rules and party defection in a decentralized and diverse party. It is argued that i…
Reverse Contamination: Burning and Building Bridges in Mixed-Member Systems
Why would a candidate in a mixed-member electoral system willingly forego the chance to be dual listed in the party list tier along with the single-member district tier? Mixed-member systems create a “reverse contamination effect” through which list rankings provide important information to voters and thus influence behavior in the nominal tier. Rankings signal importance of the candidate within the party and also constitute information about the…
Civil Society and Interest Groups in Contemporary Japan
book
Japan's New Politics: The Case of the NPO Law
Japan's “Coalition of the Willing” on Security Policies
Over-nominating candidates, undermining the party: The collective action problem under SNTV in Japan
Any political party has a profound interest in maximizing seats, which in turn requires running the optimum number of candidates. However, to do this presumes solving a collective action problem among self-interested party members or leaders, and is deeply conditioned by the electoral system. The case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party under the Single Non-Transferable Vote electoral system provides a superb illustration of how party leaders, ev…
When Do Interest Groups Contact Bureaucrats Rather than Politicians? Evidence on Fire Alarms and Smoke Detectors from Japan
What determines whether interest groups choose to contact politicians or bureaucrats? Despite the importance of this question for policymaking, democracy, and some prominent principal-agent understandings of politics, it is relatively unexplored in the literature. We argue that government stability plays a major part in interest groups’ decisions. That is, central to interest groups’ decisions is their assessment of the likelihood that politician…
Legislative organization in MMP: The case of New Zealand
How do electoral systems affect legislative organization? The change in electoral systems from Single Member District plurality (SMD) to Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) in New Zealand can illuminate how electoral incentives affect the distribution of cabinet positions. Because in SMD the outcome of individual local districts determines the number of seats a party wins collectively, New Zealand parties deploy cabinet posts in order to shore up the…
The End of Political Science? Rational Choice Analyses in Studies of Japanese Politics
Japan's New Politics: The Case of the NPO Law
Molding Japanese Civil Society: State-Structured Incentives and the Patterning of Civil Society
What is the role of the State in the development of civil society? Rather than a simplistic, oppositional relationship, the state's influence has typically been to shape, not suppress, civil society. Through its direct and indirect structuring of incentives, the State promotes a particular pattern of civil society organization; political institutions structure the "rules of the game," which in part determine who plays and who flourishes. This per…
Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of the LDP
This article traces the effects of Japan's 1994 electoral reform on Japan's governing party, the LDP. Factions have lost their central role in nominating candidates and deciding the party presidency but remain important in allocating party and Diet posts. Unexpectedly, koenkai have grown stronger because they perform new functions. PARC remains important but diminished by the enhanced policymaking role of party leaders in the coalition government…
Japan's “Coalition of the Willing” on Security Policies
Japan’s Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates
This book provides an overview of the state of Japan's civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why Japan differs so much from other industrialized democracies. It offers a new interpretation of why Japan's civil society has developed as it has, with many small, local groups but few large, professionally managed national organizations. The book further asks what the consequences of that pattern of development ar…
Electoral Incentives in Mixed-Member Systems: Party, Posts, and Zombie Politicians in Japan
How do electoral incentives affect legislative organization? Through an analysis of Japan's mixed-member electoral system, we demonstrate that legislative organization is strongly influenced not only by the individual legislators reelection incentives but also by their interest in their party gaining power and maintaining a strong party label. Electorally vulnerable legislators are given choice legislative positions to enhance their prospects at …
Civil Society and Interest Groups in Contemporary Japan
book
Policy Dissension and Party Discipline: The July 2005 Vote on Postal Privatization in Japan
This article examines party discipline and party cohesion or defection, offering as an illustration the rebellion over postal privatization in 2005 by members of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). It explores the importance of party rules – especially the seniority rule and policy specialization for district rewards – as intervening variables between election rules and party defection in a decentralized and diverse party. It is argued that i…
Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia: Straddling State and Society
1.State-Linked Associational Life: Illuminating Blind Spots of Existing Paradigms Benjamin L. Read 2. Japan's Neighborhood Associations: Membership without Advocacy Robert Pekkanen 3. Swaying Between State and Community: The Role of RT/RW in Post-Suharto Indonesia Aiko Kurasawa 4. The Mutual Colonization of State and Civil Society Organizations in Vietnam Joseph Hannah 5. Municipal Governments and the Role of Cooperative Community Groups in Thail…
Legislative organization in MMP: The case of New Zealand
How do electoral systems affect legislative organization? The change in electoral systems from Single Member District plurality (SMD) to Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) in New Zealand can illuminate how electoral incentives affect the distribution of cabinet positions. Because in SMD the outcome of individual local districts determines the number of seats a party wins collectively, New Zealand parties deploy cabinet posts in order to shore up the…
Reverse Contamination: Burning and Building Bridges in Mixed-Member Systems
Why would a candidate in a mixed-member electoral system willingly forego the chance to be dual listed in the party list tier along with the single-member district tier? Mixed-member systems create a “reverse contamination effect” through which list rankings provide important information to voters and thus influence behavior in the nominal tier. Rankings signal importance of the candidate within the party and also constitute information about the…
Japan Decides 2012: The Japanese General Election
The 2012 election in Japan ejected the governing DPJ and returned the LDP overwhelmingly to power while brand new parties pulled in millions of voters. This book explains what happened, why it happene
When Do Interest Groups Contact Bureaucrats Rather than Politicians? Evidence on Fire Alarms and Smoke Detectors from Japan
What determines whether interest groups choose to contact politicians or bureaucrats? Despite the importance of this question for policymaking, democracy, and some prominent principal-agent understandings of politics, it is relatively unexplored in the literature. We argue that government stability plays a major part in interest groups’ decisions. That is, central to interest groups’ decisions is their assessment of the likelihood that politician…
Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment
Over-nominating candidates, undermining the party: The collective action problem under SNTV in Japan
Any political party has a profound interest in maximizing seats, which in turn requires running the optimum number of candidates. However, to do this presumes solving a collective action problem among self-interested party members or leaders, and is deeply conditioned by the electoral system. The case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party under the Single Non-Transferable Vote electoral system provides a superb illustration of how party leaders, ev…
The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems
No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before-and sometimes long after—they occur. Electoral systems, the rules about how voters’ preferences are translated into election results, profoundly shape not only the results of individual elections but also many other important political outcomes including party systems, candidate…
Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan: Volume 1
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics
The study of Japanese politics has flourished over the past several decades. This Handbook provides a state-of-the-field overview for students and researchers of Japanese. The volume also serves to introduce Japanese politics to readers less familiar with Japan. In addition, the volume has a theme of “evaluating Japan’s democracy.” Taken as a whole, the volume provides a positive evaluation of the state of Japan’s democracy. The volume is divided…
Political science (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works)