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Britain and Japan are island nations that share, at least superficially, certain basic political features. ... Thus, both Japan and Britain have governments based on a "fusion" of legislative and executive powers and maintained by party discipline. ... How could Britain and Japan look so similar in terms of formal democratic institutions but have such fundamentally different political cultures? If both Britain and Japan are functioning democracies (and they are by any standard--voting rights, voter turnout, electoral choice, leadership by elected officials, turnover of political elites, etc.
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