Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)
&gt; Japanese politics is different from US politics. And not in the quirky, hand-wagging way that European politics is different. Japanese politics is not US politics expressed using a different idiom, but rather a world of its own.<p>I&#x27;m surprised by the implication that the authors think European politics is US politics expressed using a different idiom. There&#x27;s not even such a thing as a single &quot;European politics&quot;. Just compare France, where President Macron&#x27;s party « La République En Marche ! » was founded in 2016, and Germany, where CDU and SPD used to be in binary opposition, but lost so much support that they had to form a coalition government together to stay in power.<p>The article mentions that<p>&gt; existing research shows that party loyalty, insofar as it is understood in the US and Europe as a sense of identification with a “team”, is almost unknown in Japan.[6] The Japanese World Values Survey team even went so far as to drop the standard question on party loyalty from their poll as it was “not relevant in Japan”<p>so I went to look for the World Values Survey. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldvaluessurvey.org&#x2F;WVSOnline.jsp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldvaluessurvey.org&#x2F;WVSOnline.jsp</a> Their website is some terrible session-based thing where you can&#x27;t link to anything, so here&#x27;s the path you need to follow: &quot;2017-2020&quot; → &quot;Select all&quot; → &quot;Next&quot; → Enter &quot;Q98&quot; as the variable → click on &quot;Show&quot; in the search result → select the &quot;Maps&quot; tab → select &quot;Not a member&quot;.<p>The percentage of people who&#x27;re not in a political party in Japan is 94.4%, with the closest European countries being Denmark (94.7%) and Germany (93.5%). The US is the country with the lowest percentage of non-party members at 49.9%. I think it&#x27;s pretty clear who&#x27;s the odd one out here.