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Horiuchi, Yusaku. and Kohno, Masaru. "SNTV and Its Political Consequences: Mechanical Effect, Strategic Candidate Nomination, and the Origins of Japan’s One-Party Dominance" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60673_index.html>

Horiuchi, Y. and Kohno, M. , 2004-09-02 "SNTV and Its Political Consequences: Mechanical Effect, Strategic Candidate Nomination, and the Origins of Japan’s One-Party Dominance" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60673_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: An electoral system generates political consequences through two routes, one directly through the mechanical working of the system and the other indirectly through actors’ strategic reactions. This paper demonstrates that a comprehensive anatomy of the single non-transferable vote (SNTV) system’s mechanical and strategic effects together provides the key with which to understand how the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) survived the early electoral competition and consolidated its governing power in postwar Japan. More specifically, we establish that the mechanical effect of the SNTV was such that ceteris paribus LDP’s seat share increased, not decreased, as the LDP reduced its number of candidates. We also show that such factors as urbanization, occupational distribution and the concentration of elderly population had no independent effects on the number of LDP candidates, substantiating that the process of LDP’s candidate nomination was strategic and politically determined, not socio-economically generated as conventionally believed (146 words).

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