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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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
c1997.
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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.