Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- The Liberal Democratic Party in Time -- The Koenkai Origins and Development of a Vote-Mobilization Machine -- The Koenkai Today Institutional Change -- Factions under the Single Nontransferable Vote Mixed-Member District System -- Factions Today -- The Policy Affairs Research Council and Policymaking under the '55 System -- The Policy Affairs Research Council after Reform -- Party Leadership in the '55 System -- The Changing Role of Party Leadership -- The Liberal Democratic Party out of Time? -- Coded Interviews -- References -- Index.