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1. The importance of party competition and a model of party competitionfailure; 2. Opposition failure in Japan: background and explanations; 3.Clientelism and its determinants; 4. The impact of clientelism andcentralized government financial structure: comparative analysis; 5. Localopposition failure in Japan; 6. National level opposition failure: the impactof subnational level weakness; 7. Political economy changes and their impacton party systems: comparative analysis; 8. Parallel party systems: politicaleconomy changes and the limits to anti-clientelist appeals in Japan; 9. Theproblem of organization and coherence in top-down party formation; 10.Conclusion: democracy without competition.