Policy Entrepreneurship and Elections in Japan

Using extensive interview data from key players in the political arena, this book examines Ozawa's struggle to normalize alternation in office between two competingpolitical 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.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.