Titlebook: Japan Decides 2012; The Japanese General Robert Pekkanen (Associate Professor, Adjunct Asso Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Mac

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Komeito—The First “Third Force” which claims to have members in eight million households across Japan. This connection still dominates Komeito’s public image and also most of what little academic work has been done on the party. Even during its ten-year stint as part of the national government (1999–2009) Komeito did not attract

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Malapportionment and the 2012 House of Representatives Electionst and smallest populations. For the 2012 election, the largest district, based on census estimates, was the Chiba 4th District with 494,141 registered voters and the smallest district was the Kochi 3rd District with 207,688 voters. This comparison can be expressed as a ratio of disparity; 1:2.38, m

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Women Candidates and Political Parties in Election 2012of the lower house, down from 9 percent in 2005 and 11.3 percent in 2009. Tokyo is farther away from its goal of increasing women’s share of leadership positions to 30 percent by 2020. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, women’s representation in the Lower House is well below the regional (1

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Foreign Policy as an Election Issueome a central factor in electoral politics (Reed, Scheiner and Thies 2012). This chapter argues that foreign policy competence is an important component of party image. Consequently, parties have become more responsive to public opinion regarding foreign policy, although even during the Cold War pol

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ally examines recent literature in the philosophy of mathema.In the four decades since Imre Lakatos declared mathematics a "quasi-empirical science," increasing attention has been paid to the process of proof and argumentation in the field -- a development paralleled by the rise of computer technolo

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nd argumentation in the field -- a development paralleled by the rise of computer technology and the mounting interest in the logical underpinnings of mathematics.  .Explanantion and Proof in Mathematics. assembles perspectives from mathematics education and from the philosophy and history of mathem