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Growing Democracy in Japan : The Parliamentary Cabinet System since 1868 /

The world's third largest economy and a stable democracy, Japan remains a significant world power; but its economy has become stagnant, and its responses to the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 and the nuclear crisis that followed have raised international concerns. Despite being consti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodall, Brian (Writer on Japanese politics)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and Japanese Terms; Note on Conventions; Introduction; 1. The Anti-Westminsterian Roots of Japan's Parliamentary Cabinet System, 1868-1946; 2.Comprador Cabinets and Democracy by the Sword, 1946-1955; 3. Corporatist Cabinets and the Emergence of the ""1955 System, "" 1955-1972; 4. Confederate Cabinets and the Demise of the ""1955 System, "" 1972-1993; 5. Disjoined Cabinets
  • Act I; 6. Disjoined Cabinets
  • Act II; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Notes; Selected References; Index.