TY - JOUR
T1 - Japan's Multimember SNTV System and Strategic Voting
T2 - The ‘M
AU - Fournier, Patrick
AU - Kohno, Masaru
N1 - Funding Information:
* The analysis and discussion of this paper are built upon the empirical results earlier reported by the authors in the Annals of the Japan Election Studies Association (Senkyo Kenkyu), vol. 15, pp. 42–55. We thank the Killam Foundation and the Social Science and Humanity Research Council of Canada for funding this research, and Ken Carty, Hiroshi Hirano, Takashi Inoguchi, and Yoshiaki Kobayashi for valuable comments on our earlier draft.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Since the early 1990s, Steven Reed and Gary Cox have changed our understanding of Japan's multimember SNTV electoral system, by highlighting its institutional effects similar to what is known as Duverger's law in the Anglo-American context. While we offer some additional evidence to consolidate their findings, we also address an issue left unexplored in these studies, namely the role of partisan information. Under Japan's system, party labels matter in elections. We show that, while Japanese voters are generally willing to abandon the candidates without affiliation with established parties, the partisan effects produce constraints for strategic coordination.
AB - Since the early 1990s, Steven Reed and Gary Cox have changed our understanding of Japan's multimember SNTV electoral system, by highlighting its institutional effects similar to what is known as Duverger's law in the Anglo-American context. While we offer some additional evidence to consolidate their findings, we also address an issue left unexplored in these studies, namely the role of partisan information. Under Japan's system, party labels matter in elections. We show that, while Japanese voters are generally willing to abandon the candidates without affiliation with established parties, the partisan effects produce constraints for strategic coordination.
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U2 - 10.1017/s146810990000205x
DO - 10.1017/s146810990000205x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:72449122135
SN - 1468-1099
VL - 1
SP - 275
EP - 293
JO - Japanese Journal of Political Science
JF - Japanese Journal of Political Science
IS - 2
ER -