Gerald L. Curtis is Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and the former director of the East Asian Institute. He is the author of The Japanese Way of Politics and Election Campaigning Japanese Style, both published by Columbia University Press.

Logic is a fine book, in fact an outstanding one. The jacket blurbs are, for once, right in their enthusiasm...For the Japanese scholar, the detail-oriented reader and anyone who wants an insider's view, written by an outsider, this book has no current peer. -- John E. Tropman Asia Pacific Business Review [A] senior statesman in the field... Curtis does not shun the complexity and uncertainty of post-1993 Japanese politics, but revels in it. He has produced a remarkable book that presents the political history of the 1990s in its full complexity. -- Steven K. Vogel, University of California, Berkeley Journal of Democracy No American has done a better job of explaining the seemingly inexplicable world of Japanese politics than Professor Gerry Curtis of Columbia. His latest book, his best, is extremely valuable, concise, thoughtful, and very well written. -- David Halberstam insightful, comprehensive and impressive...compelling reading...compulsory reading for anyone serious about understanding Japanese politics. -- David Walton Asian Studies Review

• Introduction1 1. The Politics of Complacency 2. The End of One-Party Dominance 3. The Rise and Fall of Coalition Government 4. The Politics of Electoral Reform 5. The LDP's Return to Power 6. Japan's Uncertain Political Future

Gerald L. Curtis is Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and the former director of the East Asian Institute. He is the author of The Japanese Way of Politics and Election Campaigning Japanese Style, both published by Columbia University Press.

Logic is a fine book, in fact an outstanding one. The jacket blurbs are, for once, right in their enthusiasm...For the Japanese scholar, the detail-oriented reader and anyone who wants an insider's view, written by an outsider, this book has no current peer. -- John E. Tropman Asia Pacific Business Review [A] senior statesman in the field... Curtis does not shun the complexity and uncertainty of post-1993 Japanese politics, but revels in it. He has produced a remarkable book that presents the political history of the 1990s in its full complexity. -- Steven K. Vogel, University of California, Berkeley Journal of Democracy No American has done a better job of explaining the seemingly inexplicable world of Japanese politics than Professor Gerry Curtis of Columbia. His latest book, his best, is extremely valuable, concise, thoughtful, and very well written. -- David Halberstam insightful, comprehensive and impressive...compelling reading...compulsory reading for anyone serious about understanding Japanese politics. -- David Walton Asian Studies Review

• Introduction1 1. The Politics of Complacency 2. The End of One-Party Dominance 3. The Rise and Fall of Coalition Government 4. The Politics of Electoral Reform 5. The LDP's Return to Power 6. Japan's Uncertain Political Future