Japanese democracy : power, coordination, and performance /

In this new analysis of democracy in Japan, Bradley Richardson refutes the widely accepted hypothesis that postwar Japan has been a semiauthoritarian and consensual state, heavily influenced by corporations and led by the government bureaucracy. On the contrary, Richardson's extensive newspaper...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Richardson, Bradley M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven, Conn : Yale University Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Democracy > Japan.
Political participation > Japan.
Political parties > Japan.
Decentralization in government > Japan.
Participation politique > Japon.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Decentralization in government.
Democracy.
Political participation.
Political parties.
Politics and government
Japan > Politics and government > 1945-
Japon > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-
Japan.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Postwar politics: images and questions
  • Political culture and electoral behavior
  • Parties under the "1955 system"
  • Party fragmentation and coalition dynamics
  • Executive and bureaucratic power
  • Legislative politics
  • Interests, policy, and power
  • Business interests and political life
  • The government and the economy
  • Japan as a bargained distributive democracy.

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