Japanese politics;
political corruption;
scandals;
Liberal Democratic Party;
nuclear accidents;
D O I:
10.1525/AS.2017.57.5.933
中图分类号:
K9 [地理];
学科分类号:
0705 ;
摘要:
Major political corruption scandals were a common occurrence in postwar Japan. After the 1990s, policy failure scandals generated by bureaucratic rather than political corruption became more common. Among the crucial ingredients in generating policy failure scandals was the role of interparty competition and the functioning of a two-party system.