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State and administration in Japan and Germany : a comparative perspective on continuity and change /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Muramatsu, Michio, 1940-, Naschold, Frieder
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1997.
Colección:De Gruyter studies in organization ; 75.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Table of Contents
  • Comparative Research on the State and Administration in Germany and Japan: The Framework
  • 1 Comparative Goals
  • 2 Comparing Policies
  • I Macrostructure and Macropolitics
  • Post-war Politics in Japan: Bureaucracy versus the Party/Parties in Power
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Pluralism and the Bureaucracy
  • 3 Characteristics of the Japanese Bureaucracy
  • 4 History of Japanâ€?s Bureaucracy
  • 5 Maximum Mobilization and Personnel Administration
  • 6 Budget Formulation: The Case for Integration
  • 7 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • From State of Authority to Network State: The German State in Developmental Perspective1 The German State as a Model for Meiji Japan
  • 2 Institutional Continuity and Change in the German Policy
  • 3 Institutional Options and “Bounded Rationalityâ€? in State-building Processes
  • 4 Institutional Layers of the German Polity: Federalism and the Legacy of the Old Reich
  • 5 The Administrative State and the Varieties of State Interventionism
  • 6 Parliamentarism and Party Government
  • 7 The Corporatist Legacies of the “Old Reichâ€? and of the 19th Century
  • 8 Ambiguities of Citizenship in the German Nation-state9 The German State and European Integration
  • References
  • Administrative Reform in Japan: Semi-autonomous Bureaucracy under the Pressure toward a Small Government
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Genesis
  • 3 The Reform Agenda
  • 4 Why Small Government?
  • 5 The Performance of SPARC
  • 6 Semi-autonomous Bureaucracy
  • 7 Administrative Reform and Coalition Politics
  • 8 The Local Level Reform
  • 9 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Modernization of the Public Sector and Public Administration in the Federal Republic of Germany â€? (Mostly) A Story of Fragmented Incrementalism1 Reconstruction of Public Administration in Post-war (West- )Germany in Neglection of Reforms
  • 2 Public Sector Reforms in the 1960s and Early 1970s Within an Expanded Welfare State
  • 2.1 Federal Level
  • 2.2 LÃ?nder Level
  • 2.3 Local Level
  • 3 Period between Mid-1970s and Late 1980s: Years of Economic Recession, Budgetary Squeeze and Neo-liberal Beliefs Gaining Ascendancy
  • 3.1 Federal Level
  • 3.2 LÃ?nder Level
  • 3.3 Local Level4 Development Since the Late 1980s: Upsurge of a “Modernization of the Public Sectorâ€? Debate in Germany vis-à -vis Changed International and Domestic Contexts
  • 4.1 Federal Level
  • 4.2 LÃ?nder Level
  • 4.3 Local Level
  • 5 German Unification and Administrative Reform
  • 6 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • II Policy Arenas and Networks â€? A Comparative Policy Approach
  • Social Policy in Japan: Building a Welfare State in a Conservative One Dominant Party System
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Analytical Framework