The rise and fall of the Democratic Party of Japan / Kenji E. Kushida and Phillip Y. Lipscy
The nationalization of Japanese elections / Kenneth Mori McElwain
Appendix A: Alternative models of estimating the partisan swing
The electoral system and Japan's partial transformation: party system consolidation without policy realignment / Ethan Scheiner
The survival of "third parties" in Japan's mixed-member electoral system / Steven R. Reed
Electoral consequences of municipal mergers / Kay Shimizu
Building a party: candidate recruitment in the Democratic Party of Japan, 1996-2012 / Daniel M. Smith, Robert J. Pekkanen, Ellis S. Krauss
Appendix B: Party of origin of all DPJ candidates in house of representatives elections, 1996-2012
Appendix C: SMD contests with a Kōbo-recruited new DPJ candidate, 2000-12
The development of DPJ partisanship from a fraction to a majority (and back again?) / Yukio Maeda
Appendix D: Procedure for extracting news on the DPJ from the database; time-series diagnoses
A casualty of political transformation? The politics of energy efficiency in the Japanese transportation sector / Phillip Y. Lipscy
Information and communications technology (ICT) policy in a post-LDP Japan: caught between distributive politics and strategic policy again? / Kenji E. Kushida
Decentralization and the Democratic Party of Japan / Linda Hasunuma
The DPJ and women: the limited impact of the 2009 alternation of power on policy and governance / Alisa Gaunder
The Democratic Party of Japan's new (but failing) grand security strategy: from "reluctant realism" to "resentful realism"? / Christopher W. Hughes
The new Asianism: Japanese foreign policy under the Democratic Party of Japan / Daniel Sneider
The DPJ's political response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster / Kenji E. Kushida.
Japan under the DPJ : the politics of transition and governance. ISBN 9781931368339. Published by Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.