Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University, published an article titled “Weak Opposition Makes Japan Look Like a One-Party System” in the September 18, 2016 The Australian Financial Review.
“Japan’s political party system will be re-invented, one way or another,” Professor Curtis writes.”It is possible that reinvention will leave the LDP so strong and the opposition so impotent that Japan evolves into something similar to a one-party system in which the checks and balances essential to democratic governance are drastically weakened. Japan requires the presence of a catch-all centre-left party that offers the public a realistic alternative to the LDP.”
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