Perceived governing competence and ideological alignment: Democratic satisfaction in Japan’s one-party dominant system
Journal of Asian and African Studies
Published online on July 25, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Asian and African Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study examines how dominant-party systems reshape the criteria by which citizens evaluate democratic performance, drawing on Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Wave 5 data from Japan. It is argued that when electoral alternation is structurally ...
This study examines how dominant-party systems reshape the criteria by which citizens evaluate democratic performance, drawing on Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Wave 5 data from Japan. It is argued that when electoral alternation is structurally ...