Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Chapter I. Toward a Framework for the Study of Local Opposition, pg. 3*Chapter 2. Electoral Change in Japan: An Overview, pg. 35*Chapter 4. Opposition in the Suburbs, pg. 95*Chapter 5. National and Local Voting Trends: Cross-Level Linkages And Correlates Of Change, pg. 131*Chapter 6. Citizens' Movements: The Growth And Impact Of Environmental Protest In Japan, pg. 187*Chapter 7. Political Socialization Through Citizens' Movements, pg. 228*Chapter 8. Civic Protest In Mishima: Citizens' Movements and the Politics of the Environment in Contemporary Japan, pg. 274*Chapter 9. Progressive Local Administrations: Local Public Policy and Local-National Relations, pg. 317*Chapter 10. Political Choice and Policy Change in Medium-Sized Japanese Cities, 1962-1974, pg. 353*Chapter 11. Opposition in Power: The Development and Maintenance of Leftist Government in Kyoto Prefecture, pg. 383*Chapter 12. The Partisan Politicization of Local Government: Causes and Consequences, pg. 427*Contributors, pg. 471*Index, pg. 473