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  title info:
    title: Japanese democracy
    sub title: power, coordination, and performance
  name:
    name part: Richardson, Bradley M.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    place:
      place term: New Haven, Conn
    publisher: Yale University Press
    date issued: c1997
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 and documentary research shows that Japanese political life has been extremely fragmented and discordant at all levels - in the bureaucracy, legislatures, parties, and interest groups and in business and industry.
  abstract: In Japanese Democracy, Richardson explores power relations and demonstrates how Japan's political system is unlike Great Britain's and similar to those of the United States and Italy, where politics is decentralized and decisions are made at many levels. He draws some important conclusions: that Japan's postwar industrial policy has not always been successful, that the country is as much an economic welfare state as it is an economic "miracle," and that the lack of strong leadership has kept Japan from playing a more assertive role in the international arena. As in the United States, private interests hold central policymaking processes hostage, and weak leadership prevails.
  table of contents: 1. Postwar Politics: Images and Questions -- 2. Political Culture and Electoral Behavior -- 3. Parties Under the "1955 System" -- 4. Party Fragmentation and Coalition Dynamics -- 5. Executive and Bureaucratic Power -- 6. Legislative Politics -- 7. Interests, Policy, and Power -- 8. Business Interests and Political Life -- 9. The Government and the Economy -- 10. Japan as a Bargained Distributive Democracy.
  note: Bradley Richardson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-315) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ja---
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: Political parties
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: Decentralization in government
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1945-
  classification: JQ1681 .R5 1997
  classification: 321.80952
  identifier: 0300062583 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0300076649 (pbk.)
  identifier: 96022203
  location:
    physical location: CARM
  record info:
    record content source: TOC
    record creation date: 960523
    record change date: 20100201143520.0
    record identifier: c000294420
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng