This work deals with the public policy-making process in contemporary Japan which testifies a new dictum: "The various phases of the policy process cause politics". The analytical focus is threefold, encompassing: the policy-making process on the national level; elections and the policy-making proce
The Policy-Making Process in Contemporary Japan
β Scribed by Minoru Nakano (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 269
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Political Process of Welfare Policy Formation: The 1985 Public Pensions System Reform....Pages 13-63
Fundamental Patterns in Japanese Politics....Pages 64-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Elections and Policy-Making....Pages 103-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Public Decision-Making and the Articulation and Mediation of Regional Interests....Pages 159-205
Technocracy and Political Friction in the Big City: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Relocation Decision-making Process....Pages 206-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-257
β¦ Subjects
Asian Politics; Electoral Politics; Political Science
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