tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post7546105490104277758..comments2023-10-09T00:45:55.603+09:00Comments on Shisaku: Abe Shinzo in 2020? (Not Hindsight)MTChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-35675096387574812412013-09-15T06:25:14.152+09:002013-09-15T06:25:14.152+09:00Anonymous -
Thank you for the details on the West...Anonymous -<br /><br />Thank you for the details on the Westminster system.<br /><br />I think also you have correctly identified the president/secretary-general relationship as analogous to the Party Leader/Party Chairman division of labor, although in the case of the LDP, responsibilities for party strategy have really been shared between the president and the <i>sanyaku</i> / <i>yonyaku</i>).<br /><br />Abe is not a party reformer. He has not made any proposals on changing the internal machinery of the LDP. We have no reason to believe he will expend capital to change the party charter or the party's traditional practices.<br />MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-58345188418859208482013-09-15T01:14:10.614+09:002013-09-15T01:14:10.614+09:00Perhaps Abe could mimick the Westminster model and...Perhaps Abe could mimick the Westminster model and divide the leader post into "Party (Parliamentary) Leader" and "Party Chairman"? Where the former is the political leader of the party in the Houses of Diet, while the latter is the leader in charge of party strategy? <br /><br />Though I guess the "Party Chairman" role is already taken up by the current "Secretary-General", so there might still be no way out of it for him. <br /><br />He might try to hack and splice the responsibilities of these posts, giving the Sec-Gen the glorified title of being in nominal charge of the party while he's still the one calling the shots in terms of national political decisions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com