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Dominance Through Division investigates the political institutions and strategies that have enabled Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party to dominate electoral politics for decades. Amy Catalinac analyzes how group-based clientelism—the distribution of targeted benefits to organized groups—creates and sustains political divisions within the electorate.
The book explores the relationship between institutional design and political outcomes, demonstrating how strategic divisions between groups actually consolidate the ruling party’s power. Catalinac combines historical analysis with rigorous political economy theory to explain Japan’s unique electoral and party system dynamics.
By examining the mechanisms of clientelism and group politics, this work provides crucial insights into how dominant parties maintain control and why electoral competition takes specific forms in institutionally constrained environments.
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