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Political Recruitment: The Case of Japanese Prefectural Assemblymen

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This paper is an attempt to specify and assess the significance of a variety of factors that condition the recruitment of Japanese prefectural assemblymen. The term recruitment is used here to refer to the entire process involved in a person's induction into a position. Since the aspirants must formally undertake candidacy for the prefectural assembly elections, this paper is in essence concerned with those factors which significantly shape the processes of their candidacy and elections.Data used here were gathered in Japan during the period of June, 1965 to February, 1966 and are mostly of three kinds: 1) official documents such as election returns, 2) semiofficial surveys and polls concerning electoral behavior, and 3) data obtained through interviews which the author conducted with a sample of prefectural assemblymen and other local government officials in Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures. Whenever pertinent and available, comparable data regarding other prefectures and Japan as a whole will be given. They serve as norms whereby the data on Chiba and Kanagawa can be appropriately evaluated.

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  • Kim, Young C., 1967. "Political Recruitment: The Case of Japanese Prefectural Assemblymen," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(4), pages 1036-1052, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:61:y:1967:i:04:p:1036-1052_22
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