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Social Cleavages, Voter Alignment, and Dealignment in Japan
Starting from an interpretation of the cleavage-theory as a dynamic model of "freezing" and "unfreezing" of party systems and voter alignments, this paper tries to ascertain the major cleavage structures that have conditioned the development of the Japanese party system. After its formation in 1955, the post-war party system was mainly based on two cleavages -one economic and the other a cultural cleavage -but we have seen a growing tendency towards "unfreezing" since the early 70s. Neither the
doi:10.15057/8284
fatcat:3jzg5judnnazbb7x3emd25mwga