Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)
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Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)
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Re: Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)
#2I read statistics where 40% of young people do not start family, do not date, and basically withdraw from society. In interviews they blame it on long working hours and rigid rules in society in general.
So maybe there is no conflict, but it is hardly functional.
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#3I read statistics where 40% of young people do not start family, do not date, and basically withdraw from society. In interviews they blame it on long working hours and rigid rules in society in general. So maybe there is no conflict, but it is hardly functional.
> So maybe there is no conflict, but it is hardly functional.
You do realize this is a pretty condescending and closed-minded statement to make no?
It's been said that any developing country going through accelerated economic improvement will have their birth rates reduced by quite a bit. That doesn't make it their society any less functional than say the NRA vs mass shootings, or political gridlocks between parties.
And last I heard Japan was opening up to foreign sources of labour. They are slowly changing their minds and adapting.
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#4Japan is hardly the first country that comes to mind as "functional". They've been stagnant for several decades.
Re: Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)
#5Japan is hardly the first country that comes to mind as "functional". They've been stagnant for several decades.
Which is possibly representative of the will of the society.
Another one-party democracy that worked well, at least for a few decades, is Singapore.
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#6Actually reading the article, I think the most interesting part of it is not the one-party democracy or even the insights it provides about Japanese politics. It is the fact that they did something that is generally discouraged in this field: using open-ended questionnaires. And it gave them tons of insights!
Instead of asking "Which party do you prefer?" They realized that almost no party preference was expressed, except for the LDP, the ruling party and usually as an opposition to it.
They discovered the categories of focus in the electorate instead of shoehorning a grid into it.
Of course you don't really want to do it when you compare countries, and you open yourself to a ton of bias when you do manual analysis, but I think it is good once in a while to do such a thing to allows insights that may have been missed to show up.
Re: Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)
#7I read statistics where 40% of young people do not start family, do not date, and basically withdraw from society. In interviews they blame it on long working hours and rigid rules in society in general. So maybe there is no conflict, but it is hardly functional.
From a european perspective I find the current state the US is in vastly more dystopian than Japan. As of now I'd rather live in Japan than the US.
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#8Japan is hardly the first country that comes to mind as "functional". They've been stagnant for several decades.
Which is possibly representative of the will of the society. Another one-party democracy that worked well, at least for a few decades, is Singapore.
> Another one-party democracy that worked well, at least for a few decades, is Singapore.
Well, if you and your neighbors vote against the ruling party, your garbage pickup gets cut off, and maybe your water.
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#9Japan is hardly the first country that comes to mind as "functional". They've been stagnant for several decades.
It's terribly short-sighted to try to portray a whole society on it's economic growth rate.
From that nonsense, it becomes even more foolish to assert that Japan (a G8 nation and the 3rd largest economy in the world) is not "functional" by focusing exclusively on it's economy.
Re: Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)
#10Japan is hardly the first country that comes to mind as "functional". They've been stagnant for several decades.
It's terribly short-sighted to try to portray a whole society on it's economic growth rate. From that nonsense, it becomes even more foolish to assert that Japan (a G8 nation and the 3rd largest economy in the world) is not "functional" by focusing exclusively on it's economy.
There's nothing in GP that suggested they were referring to the economy specifically: the population has been in decline for some time, and many parts of the country are losing tax revenues.