Policy Entrepreneurship and Elections in Japan

<p>Using extensive interview data from key players in the political arena this book examines Ozawa's struggle to normalize alternation in office between two competing<br>political parties - particularly topical given the results of the 2009 election which handed over power to the Democratic Party of Japan - and how he has used his entrepreneurial talents to precipitate and carry out institutional change.</p> <p>Not only a political biography but also an in-depth analysis of the Japanese political and electoral systems this book will be of huge interest to anyone interested in Japanese politics and electoral systems.</p>