Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Exchange Rates -- Introduction -- Citizens and Elites in the Construction of the LDP System -- Party and Voter Dealignment -- Changing Media, Changing Politics -- Citizens and the Prime Minister -- Representation and Policymaking under LDP Administrations in the Post-1955 System -- Voters and the Democratic Party of Japan -- Afterword -- The National Diet -- ASSK Survey Questions and Coding -- The Japan Election Study II -- References -- Index.