1. Factions: The ‘Parties within a Party’ Weaken 2. Party Presidential Elections and the Distribution of Positions: The Increasing Power of the Party President 3. The Policy Making Process: The LDP’s System of Preliminary Review and Prime Minister-led Politics 4. National Elections: The LDP Diet Membership’s Underlying Two-Tier Structure 5. The Partner Organisations of the LDP: Their Votes and Money in Decline 6. The Local Party and Personal Support Organisations: Foundations of LDP’s Strength Conclusion The LDP Today: Shifting Organisation and Changing Ideas
Nakakita Koji is Professor of Politics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. He has published seven books in Japanese including The Establishment of the 1955 System in Japanese Politics (2002).
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