In Japan, the dominant party hangs on to power
Unlike in other democracies this year, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party bucked the trend of electoral defeat but the Ishiba government’s survival is questionable.
Dr. Alan Siaroff
Canadian International Council Victoria, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Lethbridge
Alan Siaroff is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge, where he taught comparative politics. His scholarly focus is on political regimes and democratization, political institutions and comparative democracies, electoral systems, and party systems. He is the author of Comparing Political Regimes (now in its fourth edition) and Comparative European Party Systems (now in its second edition), plus many articles in European and North American journals.
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