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Regime Shifts in Japan and Switzerland?

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Publisher: Swiss Political Science Association
Year: 2004
Tongue: German
Weight: 326 KB
Volume: 10
Category: Article
ISSN: 1420-3529
DOI: 10.1002/j.1662-6370.2004.tb00032.x

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper compares the development of the Japanese political economy regime and its repercussions for the party system with the, at least at first sight, contrasting case of Switzerland. Rather than pointing out the differences between the two countries, the comparison emphasizes the similarities: both countries are involved in a comparable regime shift, which has its origins in similar domestic structural and cultural shifts as well as in changes in the world economy. In both countries, the mismatch between the socioeconomic realities and the political configurations has been widening for many years. Since the early nineties, the much needed realignment in the party systems has gotten underway in Japan as well as in Switzerland, but it has not yet reached a new equilibrium. In Switzerland, however, the restructuring of the party system has proceeded more steadily and has gone farther than in Japan

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