(أثر تغيير النظام الانتخابي في النظام الحزبي في اليابان)

Abstract

The electoral system plays a major role in changing the prevailing party system. Despite the multiplicity of political parties in Japan and their participation in the elections since 1958، the electoral system (one shifting vote) led to the dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party and its formation of the government alone until (1993)، in the first government not headed by the Liberal Party، the government and its parliamentary coalition supporting it quickly changed the electoral system (parallel electoral system) to block the path for the Liberal Party to return to dominance.

Despite this، changing the electoral system to (parallel electoral system) did not end the control of the LDP to a large extent، because this system creates a kind of balance between large and small parties، as the LDP formed the government but entered into coalitions with the rest political parties.