{"id":14237,"date":"2016-10-02T07:03:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T17:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14237"},"modified":"2016-10-02T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T19:06:54","slug":"my-japan-times-jbc-column-101-us-and-japan-votes-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-oct-3-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14237","title":{"rendered":"My Japan Times JBC column 101: “US and Japan votes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (Oct 3, 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US and Japan votes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<\/strong>
\n By Dr. ARUDOU, Debito. The Japan Times, Just Be Cause column 101<\/strong>
\n To be published Oct 3, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love elections. Anywhere. It\u2019s fascinating to see how politicians craft public appeals. No matter how flawed the process, it\u2019s how nation-states recharge their legitimacy and publicly reaffirm their mandate to govern.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

During this season of the world\u2019s most-watched presidential campaign, JBC will assess \u201cthe good, the bad, and the ugly\u201d of how the United States and Japan run their elections. […] I want to talk about the expression of political culture and momentum that has grown from generations of campaigning, and how it brings out the \u201cgood\u201d (things that are healthy for a representative democracy), the \u201cbad\u201d (things that aren\u2019t), and the \u201cugly\u201d (the just plain ludicrous)…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the rest in the Japan Times\u00a0at\u00a0http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2016\/10\/02\/issues\/comparing-elections-u-s-japan-good-bad-ugly\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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JBC: I love elections. Anywhere. It\u2019s fascinating to see how politicians craft public appeals. No matter how flawed the process, it\u2019s how nation-states recharge their legitimacy and publicly reaffirm their mandate to govern. <\/p>\n

During this season of the world\u2019s most-watched presidential campaign, JBC will assess \u201cthe good, the bad, and the ugly\u201d of how the United States and Japan run their elections. […] I want to talk about the expression of political culture and momentum that has grown from generations of campaigning, and how it brings out the \u201cgood\u201d (things that are healthy for a representative democracy), the \u201cbad\u201d (things that aren\u2019t), and the \u201cugly\u201d (the just plain ludicrous)…<\/p>\n

Read the rest in the Japan Times at http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2016\/10\/02\/issues\/comparing-elections-u-s-japan-good-bad-ugly\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,20,23,4,14,13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-cultural-issue","category-history","category-humor","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-media","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}