Introduction / Gill Steel and Sherry L. Martin
Reforming the Liberal Democratic Party / Ellis S. Krauss and Robert Pekkanen
Campaign behavior : the limits to change / Dyron Dabney
Diet members and seat inheritance : keeping it in the family / Naoko Taniguchi
Policy preferences and party platforms : what voters want vs. what voters get / Gill Steel
Reforming the bureaucracy / Eiji Kawabata
Keeping women in their place : penetrating male-dominated urban and rural assemblies / Sherry L. Martin
Prefectural politics : party and electoral stagnation / Robert J. Weiner
The potential and limits of antiparty electoral movements in local politics / Robin M. LeBlanc
Civil society and democracy : reforming nonprofit organization law / Yuko Kawato and Robert Pekkanen
Contemporary Japanese democracy / Sherry L. Martin and Gill Steel.