Dear SSJ-Forum,


The editors of /Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election/ are pleased to announce that the book has been published. The cost is US$39.99 with worldwide free shipping from Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 978-3-319-76474-0; website https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319764740). The volume is also available in electronic format at the price of $29.99. Individual chapters may also be available for separate purchase. We believe that the book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students and hope that it will be a resource for your classes. The book offers excellent and very up to date scholarship.


A free sample chapter, "The 2017 Election Results" coauthored by Ethan Scheiner, Daniel M. Smith and Michael F. Thies, is available for complimentary download (link below).


The Table of Contents is below for your convenience.


Sincerely,


Robert Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner, and Daniel M. Smith



/Japan Decides 2017: The Japanese General Election/


Table of Contents


Part I Introduction


1.Introduction, by Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner and Daniel M. Smith

2.Japanese Politics Between 2014 and 2017: The Search for an Opposition Party in the Age of Abe, by Robert J. Pekkanen and Steven R. Reed

3.The 2017 Election Results: An Earthquake, a Typhoon, and another Landslide, by Ethan Scheiner, Daniel M. Smith and Michael F. Thies


Part II Political Parties


4.Komeito 2017: New Complications, by Axel Klein and Levi McLaughlin

5.The Opposition: From Third Party Back to Third Force, by Robert J. Pekkanen and Steven R. Reed

6.The JCP: A Perpetual Spoiler?, by Ko Maeda


Part III Campaign and Issues


7.Scandals during the Abe Administrations by Matthew Carlson and Steven R. Reed

8.Public Opinion and the Abe Cabinet: Alternating Valence and Position Issues, by Yukio Maeda

9.Survey of Candidates' Policy Preferences, by Kiichiro Arai and Miwa Nakajo

10.Party Competition and the Electoral Rules, by Kuniaki Nemoto

11.Persistence of Women's Under-representation, by Mari Miura

12.Does Japan want to Build a Wall Too? Immigration and the 2017 General Election in Japan, by Michael Strausz

13.Inequality and the 2017 Election: Decreasing Dominance of Abenomics and Regional Revitalization, by David Chiavacci

14.The First Two Arrows of Abenomics: Monetary and Fiscal Politics in the 2017 Snap Election, by Saori Katada and Gabrielle Cheung

15.Abenomics Third Arrow: Fostering Competitiveness?, by Kenji E. Kushida

16.Constitutional Revision in the 2017 Election, by Kenneth Mori McElwain

17.The North Korea Factor in the 2017 Election, by Yasushi Izumikawa

18.Foreign Policy, by Sheila Smith



The freee chapter, "The 2017 Election Results" coauthored by Ethan Scheiner, Daniel M. Smith and Michael F. Thies, is available for complimentary download at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-76475-7_3